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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: smb server access via ip address?

From: Matt Morgan <matt.morgan-fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:41:08 -0400

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On 06/22/2004 10:40 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:

  I have some machine located behind a firewall that
have to access Windows file servers via the tcp/ip address
protocol. On MacOS X, I am able to easily do this with
a smb url of the form...
smb://username@serverdomainname/path/to/serverdirectory
however I can't seem to get this to work under Nautilus in either FC2 or RH Enterprise 3. Does either support accessing smb file shares through a tcp/ip protocol and if so what is the correct form of the url to use in Nautilus? Jack

It should work if you've got DNS set up right, or at least a hosts file entry pointing to the server.

Try it with the IP address. If that works, but the domain name still doesn't work, then you have a DNS problem. If it doesn't work with the IP address then ping it. If you can ping it, something's wrong with smbclient.