Upon boot up of my linux host I can not see it from my windows machine. This is what I have to do to get it working via hostname.
I have SUSE 11.2 running with the firewall switched on. I can ping linux via IP but not the hostname. I switch off the firewall and try again with the desired result. I switch the firewall back on and I’am still able to ping the linux machine via hostname.
Why is it that i have to switch the firewall off and back on again to work with the hostname from windows ?
Here is a great link on Networking in Linux that you can work your way through by swerdna 
openSUSE SuSE Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials by Swerdna
Cheers!
etech97
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That doesn’t make sense really. Whether you use an IP address or a
hostname (which I take to mean just ‘yourbox’ and not
‘yourbox.something.tld’) is completely irrelevant to the destination
system since any use of a name (whether just a hostname or a full DNS
name) is resolved to an IP address by the source system before a single
ICMP (ping) packet leaves the source system. Anyway, what you’re stating
doesn’t make sense. Perhaps you could include the command(s) you are
using verbatim and that may help clarify something.
Good luck.
On 07/04/2010 09:56 PM, bradatschs wrote:
>
> Upon boot up of my linux host I can not see it from my windows machine.
> This is what I have to do to get it working via hostname.
>
> I have SUSE 11.2 running with the firewall switched on. I can ping
> linux via IP but not the hostname. I switch off the firewall and try
> again with the desired result. I switch the firewall back on and I’am
> still able to ping the linux machine via hostname.
>
> Why is it that i have to switch the firewall off and back on again to
> work with the hostname from windows ?
>
>
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On Sun July 4 2010 10:56 pm, bradatschs wrote:
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“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
On 2010-07-05 03:56 GMT bradatschs wrote:
>
> Upon boot up of my linux host I can not see it from my windows
> machine. This is what I have to do to get it working via hostname.
>
> I have SUSE 11.2 running with the firewall switched on. I can ping
> linux via IP but not the hostname. I switch off the firewall and try
> again with the desired result. I switch the firewall back on and I’am
> still able to ping the linux machine via hostname.
>
> Why is it that i have to switch the firewall off and back on again to
> work with the hostname from windows ?
Interesting.
Access by name requires that you either have a name server in your
network, or that you define the names in the local “hosts” file (yes,
windows also has one).
However… making educated guesses… Windows has some sort of name
discovering method within windows machines. Linux support some of this
via samba, and the firewall block these unless you open it.
Or it could be the avahi services.
How to “solve” this?
Open a terminal (xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal) and type
“tailf /var/log/firewall”. Then attempt the connection by name, and see
what messages are printed in that terminal. Something perhaps like
“SFW2-INext-DROP-…” coming from the windows machine.
That will tell what ports need to be opened.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))
On Mon July 5 2010 09:21 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2010-07-05 03:56 GMT bradatschs wrote:
>
>>
<snip>
> Interesting.
>
> Access by name requires that you either have a name server in your
> network, or that you define the names in the local “hosts” file (yes,
> windows also has one).
>
> However… making educated guesses… Windows has some sort of name
> discovering method within windows machines. Linux support some of this
> via samba, and the firewall block these unless you open it.
>
<snip>
For windows networking (workgroup, NT4 domain) names can be resolved via
broadcast, WINS as well as LMhosts and hosts.
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P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
Hello venzkep
Thanks for the Tip¸ setting the “netbios server” in allowed services at the Linux firewall setting worked straight away.
BTW thank you to every one that responded to my query
Regards
bradatschs
On Fri July 9 2010 06:46 am, bradatschs wrote:
>
> Hello venzkep
>
> Thanks for the Tip¸ setting the “netbios server” in allowed services at
> the Linux firewall setting worked straight away.
>
> BTW thank you to every one that responded to my query
>
> Regards
> bradatschs
>
>
bradatschs;
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“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green