WLC 2504 - Browse network by host

[alternateTechworks]

New to WLC install. The WLAN is up and working but I can only communicate by ip address from and to the devices connected through WLAN. I'm unable to communicate by host name.

Thank you

[Scott Fella]

You should be able to as lon as you created a dns record to map the hostname to the ip.

-Scott 

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[alternateTechworks]

Thanks for the reply. Lost me here. Any chance you can provide reference or link to get me on right track. I don't think I have internal DNS configured.

[pwwiddicombe]

Your wireless clients - are they being assigned a correct/reachable DNS server? 

How do they get leases?

[alternateTechworks]

They are getting the same ip configuration as the wired clients from the router. The current DNS server is the router. This is a new WiFi. The previous Wifi (WAP561) WDS the clients obtained ip's from the router and I could browse the network by device hostname. The devices are getting the DNS from the DHCP from the router and obtains the same DNS as the wired client.

[Scott Fella]

You can't use hostname a if you don't have a dns server.  Basically if DNS is working, you can issue an nslookup <WLC hostname> on a command prompt.  Also if the ipconfig /all has DNS servers with an internal IP address, most likely you have a dns server in your environment.  However if your using a public dns server, then you will not be able to use the co triller hostname to access the controller.

Here is a link:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727018.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

[alternateTechworks]

Well I can now ping host name. It turned out to be a setting in the WLC. I needed to enable "Broadcast Forwarding". Now applications on wireless clients can connect other devices by host name. I am still unable to browse the network through file explorer unless I enter path manually.