Can I get simple name resolution on the local network without DNS, on a Mac?

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Published on 2010-04-06T13:01:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 13:03 UTC
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I've got Mantis running on a Linux VM with a Win2k8 server host. I installed Samba with the following configuration:

[global]
workgroup = COMPANY
netbios name = MANTIS
security = share

Now on all our windows machines people can simple go to http://mantis, rather than http://172.16.0.20. However, this doesn't appear to work on the Mac machines.

Any ideas how I can sort this without changing anything on the Windows server?

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