[KLUG Members] samba server can be browsed but not pinged

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Setting up a Samba server to handle some files for Win machines, I can
> make it browseable but the boxes can't see anything inside the server,
> nor can they ping it by name (they can ping it by IP address).
> The server gets its IP address via DHCP from a linux firewall.
> This seems like it should be simple.

Unfortunately you're dealing with TWO namespaces, this is the joy of
mating real networking (IP, DNS, DHCP, etc...) and M$ crap.

1.) IP DNS
2.) IP NetBIOS

ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/CIFSnPOSIX.pdf

To make it work seemlessly you need to either hand the server a static
IP address from the DHCP server and add it to the local DNS (assuming
your using some kind of split-horizon) or setup a WINS server and have
your DNS server recieve updates via the 'wins hook'.