[Samba] Samba can't find its hostname via broadcast

Atrox silver.salonen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 10:42:32 GMT 2007


Hello.

I'm using Samba 3.0.25a on FreeBSD-6.0. Samba is configured to be a PDC.

Samba can't find its hostname via nmblookup:
$ nmblookup -B 192.168.1.255 frontier
querying frontier on 192.168.1.255
name_query failed to find name frontier

If I query Samba via unicast, it answers OK:
$ nmblookup -U frontier frontier
querying frontier on 192.168.1.31
192.168.1.31 frontier<00>

Also, Samba cannot find domain's master, but I suspect it can't become the
master because of this nmblookup failure. I've experienced the similar issue
with other Samba-3.0.26a too. I've gone through Samba troubleshooting, but I
didn't find anything. What could cause this issue?

Thanks in advance,
Silver
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