Cannot Resolve host on wireless

[The Apprentice]

Hello all,

Does anybody know why when my laptop is conneced to my LAN with cat6 cable i can ping my freenas box IP and Host but when i connect to the freenas box using my wireless i can ping the IP but not the host.

I'm using vigin superhub if that of any relevance

Thank you in advance

Fred

 

[phoenix]

Does anybody know why when my laptop is conneced to my LAN with cat6 cable i can ping my freenas box IP and Host but when i connect to the freenas box using my wireless i can ping the IP but not the host.

That would indicate you either have no DNS servers set or you have no DNS records for the freenas box.

 

[The Apprentice]

Sorry i don't understand...if that was the case how come i can ping everything correctly when i have a cable plug to my laptop?

 

[praecorloth]

Without DNS, Windows machines (and *nix machines like FreeNAS running samba) rely on NetBIOS to resolve IPs to names. The short short short version is that NetBIOS under the best of conditions is flaky. But if it has worked reliably with a wired connection, then my next guess would be to check your wireless router/access point. It's possible that your wireless router/access point is blocking NetBIOS traffic.

 

[The Apprentice]

Thank you very much praecorloth,
I'll look into tha. I feel like i might be going somewhere:)

Fred