On Friday 05 August 2005 9:50 am, Claude Jones wrote: > I don't have a problem with giving StudyPC a fixed IP. It's a permanent > box. I'm just hell-bent on trying to understand why this is happenning. I > did restart network services several times during all these trouble > shooting sessions, so I don't think that's it. For some reason, when SMB > does a look around the network, it's finding the StudyPC, but then it > proceeds to do a DNS search on the internet for that name, instead of > resolving it to the local IP address. I've spent so much time on this now, > that I'm determined to figure out why this is happenning. Could this be > something lingering in cache? The other thing I'm wondering, could this be something related to my dhcp.conf file? I found a reference to this possibility in a google search for a problem not unlike mine. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
