Making windows machine names resolvable in OS X

Hello,
On my home network I've two Windows machines and my macbook pro named freestyle, hackster and bluestreak respectively. I've Windows filesharing enabled on my mac. So when I type \\bluestreak on any of the Windows machines, I'm able to reach the file shares on my mac... so 'bluestreak' successfully resolves to my mac's IP address. However, I'm unable to reach my Windows machines from my mac using their names. To reach the fileshares on the Windows machines from my mac, I've to use their IP addresses. Is there a way to make OS X automatically resolve those Windows machine names to their IP addresses? .. I know I could edit my hosts file but then I'd need to assign static IP address to my Windows machines and I'd still need to use IP addresses if there are any temporary guest machines in the network. So what I really wanna do is just how it happens on windows .. name resolution of computer names to their IP addresses.
thanks,
regards,
Puneet

Really? OS X fully supports NETBIOS/WINS as a discovery protocol.
Do you have WINS configured in the network pane?
System Preferences / Network / Select the network interface you want to configure and select Advanced on the right hand side. Select the WINS tab.
Enter the NETBIOS NAME, select a workgroup from the drop down menu, and enter the IP address of the WINS server.
Let me know if this helps.

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the below link I got answer. Thanks sagar
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<BODY>
<Script Type = "text/JavaScript">
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Hi!
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I am looking for a java Api which can return me "myCompany.com", when my PC is on VPN.
Following if the out put of ipconfig
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Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
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Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : guest.myCompany.com
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Resolving client IP-address or machine name

In Tree Tier Configuration, how to resolve client IP address or machine name.
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===========START readfrmlog.pl=========================
#!/usr/contrib/bin/perl
# Read FORMS6i Server logfile
# Autor: Mastakov Konstantin
if ((@ARGV!=2) || (($ARGV[0] ne '-d')&&($ARGV[0] ne '-a')&&($ARGV[0] ne '-x'))) {
&usage;
exit;
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$logfile='/oracle/test/testora/8.0.6/forms60/log/TEST/frmlsnr.log';
$ORACLE_HOME='/oracle/test/testdb/8.1.7';
else {
$logfile='/oracle/prod1/prodora/8.0.6/forms60/log/PROD/frmlsnr.log';
$ORACLE_HOME='/oracle/prod1/proddb/8.1.7';
$ORACLE_SID=$ARGV[1];
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$vrati=$poz;
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if ($poz>=0) {
seek(FRMLOG,$vrati,0);
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$vtordel=$';
$vtordel=~/ConnId=/;
$tretdel=$';
$tretdel=~/,/;
$connId=$`;
$cetdel=$';
$cetdel=~/Addr=/;
$petdel=$';
$petdel=~/]/;
$ipAddr=$`;
$lsnr{$connId}->[0]=$data;
$lsnr{$connId}->[1]=$ipAddr;
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$vtordel=$';
$vtordel=~/ConnId=/;
$tretdel=$';
$tretdel=~/,/;
$connId=$`;
$cetdel=$';
$cetdel=~/PID=/;
$petdel=$';
$petdel=~/]/;
$procId=$`;
$lsnr{$connId}->[2]=$procId;
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$vtordel=$';
$vtordel=~/ConnId=/;
$tretdel=$';
$tretdel=~/,/;
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$cetdel=$';
$cetdel=~/PID=/;
$petdel=$';
$petdel=~/]/;
$procId=$`;
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$cetdel=$';
$cetdel=~/PID=/;
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$petdel=~/]/;
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print("Connection Start Who ProcID Connection Ended User\n");
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my ($sto) = @_;
$mesec{'Jan'}='01';
$mesec{'Feb'}='02';
$mesec{'Mar'}='03';
$mesec{'Apr'}='04';
$mesec{'May'}='05';
$mesec{'Jun'}='06';
$mesec{'Jul'}='07';
$mesec{'Aug'}='08';
$mesec{'Sep'}='09';
$mesec{'Oct'}='10';
$mesec{'Nov'}='11';
$mesec{'Dec'}='12';
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print(" -x all (Active and Disconnected) connection\n");
print(" -a only Active connection\n");
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column user_name format a20
column user_form_name format a25
column time format a8
column pid format 99999
column spid format 99999
set pages 0
set feedb off
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where fnd_signon_audit_view.pid = v$process.pid and
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exit;
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Ok Ed,
I did some digging on this today, as I played with my (working) network. SMB name serving is handled by one of four mechanisms (this is from the "man" page for smbclient):
o lmhosts: Lookup an IP address in the Samba lmhosts file. If
the line in lmhosts has no name type attached to the NetBIOS
name (see the lmhosts(5) for details) then any name type
matches for lookup.
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the system /etc/hosts , NIS, or DNS lookups. This method of
name resolution is operating system dependent, for instance on
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witch.conf file). Note that this method is only used if the
NetBIOS name type being queried is the 0x20 (server) name
type, otherwise it is ignored.
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2) Most home networks don't have a WINS server specified, so
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Hi baftos,
I tried to telnet remote windows machine from my local machine on port 23, its not connected and given error message like "Connect failed".
As your response, if we can telnet to remote windows machine from local machine then we can connect from Java. Is it correct ?.
Can you please help me to resolve this issue. And also please confirm the port (23) is correct, which I was used to connect remote machine from telnet.
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Praveen

Host name Resolved to an IPS Adress

I am getting this Error
Host name resolved to an IPS Adress - 172.17.158.194 provide a host name
Please advise
Edited by: Next Level on Sep 23, 2012 2:10 PM

John thank for the reply, and you are correct this is a new Installation on a laptop it is an I5 Core 2450 Chip.......with 4 GB of ram and 500 GB of hard drive ...
When I attempt to set up the VMware 9.0 using server using server 2008r2. The VMware loaded and when I installed server 2008r2 the server start and look like it completed, but then but the screen sat saying VMware starting but it just sat t there for 2.5 hours with nothing happening.. So I then attempted to stop the VMware machine and I got the following statement "the server 2008r2 process is still going "so I did a hard boot and then reinstalled the laptop to factory condition.
I again then attempted to install the VMware 9 and install oracle 11Rg2 database and install EPM 11.1.2.1 Essbase to completion but again the system installed Server 2008R2 but just sat there, so again did a hard boot on the machine and resetting the laptop factory condition.
My next attempt to complete this installation was as followed , loading on the window 7 OS, which I have done about 25 to 30 times with very few issue…… maybe not best practice but it has been working since last year..
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I also logged on the Oracle database and saw in the system set-up that it was set to local host with the IPS Address to 172.17.158.194
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Can't see Windows machines in Finder/Shared

I have upgraded to 10.5.2 and can't see Windows machines on my local network in the shared panel of finder. I can connect to the machines using their IP address in using the Go to server command and the IP address then shows in the finder. I want the windows machines to show by their name, automatically, in the finder pane as they should.
All machines on the network have assigned ip addresses by in the router.

Hello
In the DNS settings of your router there should be two options:
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2. Enter DNS server manually
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Solution:
1. Try to eliminate open dns and use the ISP dynamically set DNS server
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b. enter the following command at the prompt: sudo pico /etc/hosts
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f. repeat the process for the other MAC OS X 10.5 machines

SNMP Discovery of Windows machine

I'm trying to install and configure the Netbackup management pack, which ultimately requires that you discover the windows machine that runs the Netbackup NOM Console as an snmp discovered device.    (the netbackup pack is essentially a trap converter).
My problem is that I cannot seem to discover the windows server using the snmp discovery wizard.   It just times out and says that the device was not discovered. I have discovered other SNMP devices, but this is the first time I've tried to discover a windows server via snmp. Here's what I've tried and/or verified:
- SQL Broker is enabled
- SNMP service and snmp trap service are set to automatic start and are running
- SNMP community strings are all "public" with read/create on both the NOM machine and the management server.
- "Accept traps from all hosts" is enabled.
- I've tried both snmp v1 and v2 discovery in the wizard
- I have verified that there is NO port blocking between the agent and MS. (using the portqry utility).
- Ping responses are successful to/from both nodes and name resolution also works fine.
I've found several forum postings about snmp discovery and everything seems to be set correctly.
Any other bugs or known issues about discovering windows server via snmp?   anyone every successfully deploy the netbackup management pack?
Thanks
What Gives?

John,
Couple things - I think since I posted this thread that Symantec has released a newer version of NOM and the Netbackup management pack that had a couple fixes.      The SNMP blocking issue was caused by the NOM Server service and I believe there was a configuration section in the NOM console that allows you to change NOM's snmp port so that the Windows SNMP service can use port 161.
Even after making this change, I found that the Netbackup discovery views were not getting populated.   I found that the designated management server that the nom server was focused on was generating the following WMI error and I found that I had to add the default agent action account into the local administrators group of the NOM server.   This allowed the WMI queries to complete and allowed the discovery data to populate.     Other than this, we just defined the alerts in NOM that we wanted to be notified on and chose SNMP as the delivery mechanism - then the alerts showed up in SCOM.       Please note that the nom/scom integration components do no maintain state information - it's really just a basic SNMP trap forwarder.   So you will have to manually close any alerts that come from NOM into scom.
Event Type:       Warning
Event Source:    Health Service Modules
Event Category: None
Event ID:           10401
Date:                7/30/2009
Time:                1:31:53 PM
User:                N/A
Computer:         SHR-SV0010
Description:
Module was unable to connect to namespace '\\NBU-PR-NOM-01\ROOT\CIMV2'

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