[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird resolving issue

[Jay Urish]

Winblows shared don't use DNS..They use Netbios.. Maybe you need a hole 
in the firewall for that.

Stephen Davidson wrote:
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> Greetings.
> 
> Have an odd ball issue here with MS and a SuSE 10.1 acting as a
> firewall/router.  I have a couple of 'zones', with a Samba server
> sitting on one segment.  I have a some MS machines, and some of them
> need to be segrated from some of the others, so multiple firewalls and
> zones.
> 
> I have the MS machine on the "inside" of the SuSE10.1 firewall, and a
> Samba fileserver on the other side.  Firewall is also providing DNS
> services to MS machine.  I can ping the samba server from MS machine
> using the DNS name, but when I try to 'explore' to it using MS Explorer,
> does not work.  However, when I use the IP address, I get a listing of
> all the shares.  But when I try to actually access a share, the windows
> just freeze -- they do not even refresh.  Eventually they say 'share is
> not accessable'.  However, when I manually type in the share name, it works.
> 
> Nothing in the logs about dropped packets.  And anything I googled for
> only gives me which ports to open in the firewall to allow connections
> (obviously working -- or I would not have made the connections in the
> first place!).
> 
> Suggestions?  Hints?  Ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
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