nmbd & netbios name -> many addreses

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> 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).

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

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