network shares and dns

I would like to browse files on a w2003r2 in the standard smb way:
\\myserver\share\...
But i think it would be nice using "logical" names(fileserver, dbserver,
etc.) instead of netbios names (ibmx206, hp01 etc.).
So i put an A record on my domain dns, pointing "fileserver" to 192.168.1.x
Thus i expect that the following work:
\\fileserver\share
But it doesn't. (obviously \\myserver\share\ works)
Is it a nbt issue? shouldn't be nice have only one name-resoution method?
thanks in advance
Agostino

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> I would like to browse files on a w2003r2 in the standard smb way:
> \\myserver\share\...
> But i think it would be nice using "logical" names (fileserver, dbserver,
> etc.) instead of netbios names (ibmx206, hp01 etc.).
> So i put an A record on my domain dns, pointing "fileserver" to
> 192.168.1.x
> Thus i expect that the following work:
> \\fileserver\share
> But it doesn't. (obviously \\myserver\share\ works)
> Is it a nbt issue? shouldn't be nice have only one name - resolution
> method?
> thanks in advance
> Agostino

If the client is W2k or later it will try both DNS and Netbios name
lookups at the same time. Netbios lookup should fail if there is no computer
with the Netbios name of fileserver.

Does nlookup fileserver work? If not, what about nslookup
fileserver.mydomain.com ?