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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 864858" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>Ping and MS RDC for Mac does not by default recognize netbios names on OSX. The sidebar is using Samba to interact which does support netbios naming.</p><p></p><p>You can try a cheat tho, and do:</p><p></p><p>computername.local </p><p></p><p>and see if it works. I use it frequently and have no problems on the windows network at work.</p><p></p><p>so, if a computer on your network was named homepc - you would ping it with the command:</p><p></p><p>ping homepc.local</p><p></p><p>If that doesn't work for you, you can add entries in your hosts file for each machine, or you can setup a DNS server...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 864858, member: 89124"] Ping and MS RDC for Mac does not by default recognize netbios names on OSX. The sidebar is using Samba to interact which does support netbios naming. You can try a cheat tho, and do: computername.local and see if it works. I use it frequently and have no problems on the windows network at work. so, if a computer on your network was named homepc - you would ping it with the command: ping homepc.local If that doesn't work for you, you can add entries in your hosts file for each machine, or you can setup a DNS server... [/QUOTE]
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