[Bug 375593] Re: cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf

[Martin G Miller]

The smb.conf resolve order change is one of the first things I have to
do on new installs, so that is a work around for me.  The fact that it
returns the wrong ip address on a ping command is something that I am
interested in.  I tried the same tests at my office in another town and
it behaves exactly the same way.  The difference is that I have 2
Wilndows XP pro sp2 machines there as well as 4 ubuntu 8.04 boxes.  I
find that I can use the windows machine to "ping server" and it returns
the correct 10.0.0.5 address of my server.  If I try that from any of
the Ubuntu machines, it goes out to the same 67.63.55.3 that I got at
home.  If I change my dns servers from the ones supplied by my ISP to
the ones used by openDNS for example, it behaves the same way, except it
tries to ping a different ip address.  In fact, regardless of what I put
after the ping command, it always goes to the same outside address.  I
get the same result whether from my ISP dns server or openDNS.  But the
windowsXP boxes always get the ping command correct.  So there is
something different about how WindowsXP processes a ping request from
how we are doing it in Ubuntu.  Should  I open a new bug centered on
this behavior?  I suspect if this got resolved, it would fix the network
browse issue as well.  My ISP is Optimum online.  It is the fastest and
best cable broadband provider on Long Island, New jersey and
Connecticut.  If I am having this problem, so is every other Ubuntu user
in these areas.  I think it should be looked into.

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cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375593
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