SAMBA can't get Mac client name?

[katit]

Getting those errors in log, I know it's IP of MAC machine. How do I fix that? Also, this Mac acts strangely with plain vanilla anonymous Samba share. Sometime it works just fine and sometimes it wouldn't connect

Code:

Aug 24 20:39:36 HOME-NAS notifier: Starting mdnsd.
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95124]:   STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connectionsmatchname: host name/name mismatch: 192.168.99.125 != (NULL)
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95124]: [2015/08/24 20:43:05.609824,  0] ../source3/lib/util_sock.c:1199(get_remote_hostname)
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95124]:   matchname failed on 192.168.99.125
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95126]:   STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connectionsmatchname: host name/name mismatch: 192.168.99.125 != (NULL)
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95126]: [2015/08/24 20:43:05.610751,  0] ../source3/lib/util_sock.c:1199(get_remote_hostname)
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95126]:   matchname failed on 192.168.99.125
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95125]:   STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connectionsmatchname: host name/name mismatch: 192.168.99.125 != (NULL)
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95125]: [2015/08/24 20:43:05.615841,  0] ../source3/lib/util_sock.c:1199(get_remote_hostname)
Aug 24 20:43:05 HOME-NAS smbd[95125]:   matchname failed on 192.168.99.125

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

How do I fix that?

The easy workaround is to disable hostname lookup in CIFS. I believe the proper solution is to get DNS working properly on your local network.

 

[katit]

I believe the proper solution is to get DNS working properly on your local network.

I'm all for proper solutions. What is the common ways to make DNS working properly? I have my router setup as DNS server but I didn't assign names to all of the clients.
Should I? I thought they "advertise" their names somehow? I wonder if somebody can me newbie FAW/writeup on how to go about setting it up.

Up to this moment I was living just fine without any DNS setup on my home network..

 

[SweetAndLow]

To set it up properly you need to configure every host on your network to have a hostname in your dns server.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I thought they "advertise" their names somehow?

Macs and other suitably configured *nix boxes advertise themselves and find each other using Bonjour/Zeroconf, but I don't think CIFS pays any attention to that. I went with the workaround, since we're primarily a Mac/*nix house.