[Cialug] Samba 4.9.5 name resolution failure

[Scott Yates]

I am sure you already thought of this, but just in case, are you sure DNS
is working properly?

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:00 AM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> I've seen it before, but it happened last night at one of our client's.
> For the past 10 years, Samba/NMB would resolve network names properly
> (i.e. a share could use \\<servername>\<sharname> instead of the IP
> address).
>
> After the update, all share mappings using \\<servername> are broken,
> *BUT* \\<ip address> goes straight to the server.
>
> Any pointers to a solution?
>
>         Thanks!
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