ip->netbios?

Jean Henchey jeannie at mitre.org
Tue Aug 3 17:55:06 GMT 1999


Are you sure youdefined workgroup to be something other than WORKGROUP
in smb.conf?

Andy Bakun wrote:
> 
> I'm having an odd problem with it also.  I'm running 2.0.4b on my PDC, and it
> shows up as being in the workgroup WORKGROUP, rather than REACNET as it should
> be and as every other machine is.  smbclient always reports WORKGROUP for the
> domain=[...] debug line for this machine.  I assume it's a problem with the
> configuration of the machine itself, not with findsmb.  Any ideas?  Everything
> else (that is, PDC support) works fine (and has for months).  Sample output:
> 
> IP ADDR         NETBIOS NAME   WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 192.168.1.5     PLUTO          [REACNET] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
> 192.168.1.6     JUPITER       *[WORKGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.4b]
> 192.168.1.7     NEPTUNE        [REACNET] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.4b]
> 192.168.1.8     SATURN         [REACNET]
> 192.168.1.9     NTONTIME       [REACNET] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
> 192.168.1.20    ABAKUN         [REACNET] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
> 
> Jean Henchey wrote:
> 
> > This was a lot of help.
> >
> > findsmb made this much easier.  I now see NT systems.
> >
> > As for win95... I grabbed findsmb, nmblookup, smbclient, smb.conf and
> > put them on another machine that doesn't run nmbd.  Win95 boxes are
> > still not revealing their netbios names with nmblookup.
> >
> > Any ideas where to go from here?
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