Hi there!
I've been fiddling around with my new RaspberryPi lately and I installed on it the transmission web client and daemon.
Because of reasons I've been doing all the setup using windows machines for testing, and everything was fine: from all my windows (XP, 7, 8) machines I can access the transmission address (http://raspberrypi:1234/torrent/web/) with no problems at all from any browser.
If I try accessing it from my ubuntu (10.04, 12.04) machines I just get a "page not found" error.
I figured the problem is related to the fact I'm using the machine name (raspberrypi) instead the IP address: if I use the direct IP address (e.g.: 192.168.1.234:1234/torrent/web/) it works flawlessly.
I'd obviously prefer to use the hostname!
So, how can I have ubuntu properly resolving the hostname of the raspberry (or any other host on the same local network for what matters)?
Thanks for your attention \(^__^)/
PS: strangely enough samba works fine with the hostname: smb://raspberrypi/pishare works just fine!
EDIT:
I solved the problem adding wins in my /etc/nsswitch.conf file and installing winbind as reported on a random website.
I have absolutely no clue about what it does but, so far, it is working on my 12.04 machine
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