I am trying to setup a Fast Connect Server on my AIX 5.3 box to create a shared directory for users. The problem I'm having is that I can map the shared directory onto a PC only if I specify the IP address of the AIX server. If I specify the DNS name of the AIX server, the map on the PC to the Fast Connect shared directory doesn't work.
From the PC, I did an nslookup and the DNS name of my AIX server resolves to the correct IP address.
Any ideas on how to fix this so that I can specify the DNS name instead of the IP address when mapping a shared drive?
EDIT: DNS was working just fine before installing Fast Connect and is still working.
another way would be to put entries in/etc/hosts ? it would only work of course for single hosts you specify but is handy for names the domain controller cannot resolve.
EDIT: if /etc/resolv.conf does not exist, create it
The /etc/resolv.conf on the server was already configured with the appropiate entries for our DNS servers and domain.
From the AIX server, I can resolve the DNS name for the client trying to map the shared directory and from the PC, I can resolve the DNS name of the AIX server running Fast Connect.
I tried adding just 1 client and its IP address in /etc/hosts, but the client still was unable to map the shared directory when using the DNS name of the server.
You can resolve the names of windows pcs from AIX and you can resolve the name of the AIX machine from windows pc's? If you can map a share in windows using its IP address, can you ping the AIX machine from windows using its hostname? Sorry but I am a little confused here.
edit: I have an AIX machine running samba, and along with smbd and nmbd it runs winbindd, I think winbindd may have something to with the windows pc's being able to resolve its IP address from hostname, I never joined it to our domain and it did not add it to any windows hosts files..
From the PC, I can ping the AIX server using its DNS name.
From the AIX server, I can ping the PC using its DNS name.
The nameserver entry in resolv.conf on my AIX server is pointing to our Windows DNS server. The PC gets a dynamic IP address and the AIX server has a static IP address.
There is no problem with DNS resolution between the PC and the AIX server except when the PC is trying to map the shared directory on the AIX server using the DNS name of the AIX server. Everything else, i.e. telnet, ftp, ssh, ..., works just fine when I use the DNS name of the AIX server. That's why I'm puzzled and posted this issue. Why is the mapping of the shared drive failing when the PC has to resolve the DNS name of the AIX server when everything else that resolves the DNS name works correctly?
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