[Samba] Samba not listening on port 138?

[Rowland penny]

On 04/07/16 20:52, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I am attempting to connect to a new Samba-4.3 based AD-DC from a
> workstation that already belongs to an existing domain.  The old
> domain and the new are switched on the same physical lan segment but
> have different IP network blocks assigned. Both route through the same
> gateway albeit on different interfaces.
>
> I cannot seem to find the new AD-DC from the RAST package installed on
> the workstation.  From the workstation I can ping the Samba DC without
> problem and the Samba server resolves DNS without difficulty.  I have
> been checking the ports and discovered that the Samba installation is
> not listening on port 138.  From what I have read this seems to
> indicate a problem somewhere.  Is this case?  What setting is required
> to get Samba to listen on 138 or should it just be doing it?  What
> would prevent it from doing so?
>
> Any help offered on this matter is gratefully accepted.
>

Ah, the old 'why is nmbd not listening on a DC question' :-)

This is because the 'nbt' portion of the 'samba' binary doesn't have the 
code to do this and you cannot run the separate 'nmbd' binary on a DC.

Rowland