[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird resolving issue

[Stephen Davidson]

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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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