nmbd & netbios name -> many addreses

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Peter,

Luke's right about the network trace.  Any chance you could grab one with 
netmon?

- Turn on netmon, start capture.

- Try to connect to troubled share (this will result in a query going to
  the Samba NBNS).

- Get error message.

- Stop capture.

- Save capture to file and let us know that you have it.

Luke, what method do you prefer for retrieving the capture?  He could 
send it as an attachement to both of us (I would really like to see it).

Chris -)-----


> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > > i remember what VisionFS does.  they sort list by bits-same-as-queryer
> > > > from top down.  this makes "closest" ip the first in the list.
> > > 
> > > Samba also does this and has done so for quite a while.
> > > 
> > > see the function sort_query_replies().
> > > 
> > 
> > That's not the behavior that Peter described.  He does an nbtstat name
> > query from a Windows NT box to a Samba NBNS and gets a list of IPs.  The
> > list may be sorted, but the Windows box cannot connect to the named share
> > because it is not able to resolve the name to single IP.
> 
> that used to exclusively be a bug in wfwg.
>  
> > At least, that's what seems to be happening.
> 
> network trace is required.
> 


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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services