HP CIFS Client A.02.02 Administrator's Guide

Installing, Configuring, and Using the HP CIFS Client
Name Resolution: NetBIOS Name Service, WINS, DNS, IP Configuration
Chapter 238
• If the server’s NetBIOS name differs from its DNS name (DNS
cannot resolve it), and it is on a different subnet from the CIFS
Client (NetBIOS broadcast cannot resolve it), and its address is not
resolved by WINS, then you need to create a server entry for the IP
address in the CIFS Client configuration file.
To create a server-specific setting in the configuration file, first create
a section for the server (as illustrated in the example at the end of
the file itself), then set the ipAddress parameter to the server’s IP
address. In this case, the configured IP address is used directly; other
lookup methods are bypassed for this server.
For example:
buildsys = {
ipAddress = “110.112.114.115”;
};
Note that the ip address must be quoted.
Note that NetBIOS broadcasts are useful only for servers on the same
subnetwork as the client, and DNS enables the CIFS Client to establish
NetBIOS connections only with servers whose DNS and Windows name
are identical.