[Samba] NMB problem

[Joel Hammer]

That fact you can find your server with host means you have a dns server
running. Is this so?

I am not sure why smbclient fails with bcast, but it suggests something is
misconfigured. You are sure your NIC's are all configured well, host ip's
are correct, and the netbios names are as you think they should be, and
there is no conflict between DNS names and netbios names? Have you run
testparm to see if smb.conf is OK? Is there netbios name in smb.conf?
(Ugh. Endless possiblities.)
Joel

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:34:45PM +1000, Steve Hayes wrote:
> Sorry for the delayed response - I run Samba at home, and setting it up
> is taking a backseat to work at the moment.
> 
> When I don't use the -B option I get the same behaviour - can't resolve
> name. I played with the -R option on smbclient, and this is what I get
> with smbclient for each option:
> 
> Connecting with host:
> Perfect. 
> 
> Connecting with wins:
> Prompts for password, then seems to time out. Error message is "session
> setup failed: code 0"
> 
> Connecting with lmhost:
> Same as for wins
> 
> Connection with bcast:
> name_query failed to find name DEMENTIA
> 
> My overall objective is to connect a Win2000 client (and eventually a
> Mac OS client) to my linux server. At the moment the Win2000 client can
> see the Samba server, but can't connect. My immediate goal is to get the
> server working standalone, which is why I was diagnosing NMB.
> 
> So now I seem to be blocked on two fronts:
> 
> 1) Why does NMB seem to be ok with everything except a broadcast on
> 192.168.1.255?
> 
> 2) Why does smbclient work ok with "host", but not with WINS or LMHOST?
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Steve
> 
> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 07:36, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I use 192.168.0.255 without trouble on my home network.
> > What happens when you don't used the -B option?
> > There is a nice option with smbclient, -R, which allows you to specifiy
> > which means is used to look up the client, bcast, wins, lmhosts, host (dns)
> > You might fool with that a bit.
> > Joel
> > 
> > > At 10:16 29/06/02, you wrote:
> > >I'm configuring Samba on a Red Hat Linux 7.2 server, for access from a
> > >Windows 2000 client. My server name is DEMENTIA, and it's IP address is
> > >192.168.0.5. I've confirmed with ifconfig that the server's broadcast
> > >address is 192.168.0.255.
> > >
> > >I'm having a problem with NMB that I seem to have isolated to the
> > >following symptoms -
> > >
> > >After starting NMBD, I can lookup the server name using unihost:
> > >
> > >nmblookup -U 192.168.0.5 DEMENTIA
> > >Querying DEMENTIA on 192.168.0.5
> > >Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.5 ( 192.168.0.5 )
> > >192.168.0.5 DEMENTIA<00>
> > >
> > >But when I try to do the equivalent operation via the broadcast address
> > >the lookup fails
> > >
> > >nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 DEMENTIA
> > >Querying DEMENTIA on 192.168.0.255
> > >name_query failed to find name DEMENTIA<00>
> > >
> > >The unihost example seems to indicate that NMB is up and running. I
> > >can't find any errors in the logs. I suspect that there's some
> > >configuration option in smb.conf that I'm either setting or not setting
> > >correctly, but I can't figure out which ones.
> > >
> > >I set "bind interfaces only = no", as I saw some documentation that
> > >indicated this might be related.
> > >
> > >My hosts allow = 192.168.0.255 192.168. 127.
> > >
> > >At this stage I don't know where to look next. Can anyone make a
> > >suggestion?