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Thanks for the pointer to resolv.conf. Once the tunnel was up, I edited <br>this file sticking in our DNS server at the office and deleting the <br>other entries. It worked immediatley! I didn't need to restart <br>anything...it just worked. Once I shutdown Ipsec, I reset the file back <br>to the original contents and everything was fine. I'll probably write <br>an ipsec connection start and stop script for this. I vaguely recall I <br>can set this up to run automatically.<br><br>Thank you very much Paul for all you do to help us out.<br><br>Dave<br><br>Paul Wouters wrote:<br>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Dave Vree wrote:<br>><br>>> At any rate, once connected, I can ping the IP addresses of hosts inside<br>>> my company (e.g. 192.168.253.11). However, neither the command line nor<br>>> samba will recognize any of the machines by hostname (e.g. fileserv12 or<br>>> fileserv12.mycomp.int). Therefore all of my Nautilus samba shortcuts<br>>> are not working.<br>>><br>>> Is this a DNS problem? I know the IP addresses of our corporate DNS<br>>> server, but don't know what to do. We are running a Windows domain, but<br>>> my Ubuntu box is not on the domain.<br>><br>> A quick first check would be to add the work DNS IP to /etc/resolv.conf.<br>> Though samba might be a seperate issue, since you might need to enable<br>> WINS everywhere in the office (and on your samba machine) to get it<br>> working. Though my time of using Samba dates to Windows 2000, so there<br>> might be other ways of dealing with these things now. Anyone has more<br>> up to date info?<br>><br>> Paul<br>><br>><br><br><br /><hr />Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. <a href='http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008' target='_new'>Learn Now</a></body>
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