Severe browsing problems
Konstantin Petrakakis
konstantin.petrakakis at univie.ac.at
Wed Dec 5 00:45:05 GMT 2001
Hi Samba-technical!
I´m trying to solve a serious problem since the mid of last month.
I had subscribed to the mailing list samba at lists.samba.org, but haven´t
got any help from there. Finally I contacted Paul Green
<Paul.Green at stratus.com>
who adviced me to contact this mailing list. I hope, somebody can help now.
The problem is serious and concerns browsing.
What I use:
SOLARIS 8; SAMBA 2.2.2 (DEFAULT COMPILATION [gcc, vers. 2.95.3] AND
INSTALLATION).
WIN-BOXES (Workstations, no servers): WIN2K (NATIVE INSTALLATION AND SOME
WITH SP2); WINNT4; Win98
ALL MS-BOXES POINT TO THE SAMBA SERVER AS A WINS SERVER; This works fine.
As no any windows Server is included, I want to evolve the Samba server
also to a PDC.
PHYSICAL NETWORK
****************
VLAN (IP=131.130.193.*; NETMASK=255.255.255.192; BROADCAST=131.130.193.191;
GATEWAY=131.130.193.129). PROBLEMS WITH VLANs THAT ARE ADDRESSED
BY PAUL GREEN (WWW.SAMBA.ORG/DOCS/SAMBA 2.0.x TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE;
MS-KNOWLEDGEBASE Q190930) ARE NOT THE CASE IN MY VLAN BECAUSE
1. BROWSING WORKS FINE AS LONG AS THE SAMBA SERVER IS NOT AN LMB OR DMB OR
BOTH.
2. BROWSING DOES NOT WORK EVEN IN CASE THE SAMBA SERVER (CONFIGURED AS LMB
OR DMB OR BOTH) AND A WIN2K BOX ARE WIRED TOGETHER OVER A VLAN-ISOLATED
HUB. IN THIS CASE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BOTH MASHINES WAS GRANDED BY
PINGING IN EITHER DIRECTION.
Somebody in the mailing list samba at lists.samba.org (subject: Re: samba as
local master browser does not supply a list; date 11.30.2001) claimed
similar problems that may be associated with incorrect permisions of
browse.dat. In my case, browse.dat contains the right information, that
unfortunately is not propagated by samba. Its permisions are: owner, group,
other =read; write is granded only to root.
Usually, I use two workgroups in the subnet: PET.UNIVIE and PETROLOGY. The
samba server should be a member of the latter. Before upgrading to samba
2.2.2, I have used samba 2.06 with no browsing problems. With samba 2.2.2
the typical situation is as follows:
The smb.conf file:
[global]
workgroup = PETROLOGY
netbios name = ZEUS
server string = Samba Server %v on %L
encrypt passwords = Yes
username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/usermap.txt
log level = 3
log file = /export/home/samba/logs/log.%m
max log size = 50
name resolve order = wins host lmhosts bcast
time server = Yes
domain admin group = @ntadmins
logon script = \\%L\netlogon\scripts\all.bat
logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile
local master = true
os level = 65
preferred master = True
domain master = True
domain logons = True
wins support = Yes
admin users = root, petra, administrator
hosts allow = 131.130.193. 127.0.0.1
LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING DIALOG; FOR EXAMPLE ON AN WIN2K BOX
********************************************************
C:\>net view /domain:pet.univie
Server Name Remark
---------------------------------------------------------
\\ACHAT
\\ALBIT
\\ARENIT
\\BASALT
\\GABBRO
\\GRANIT
\\KORUND
\\OPAL
\\PENNIN
\\PW2400
\\STONE
The command completed successfully.
BUT FOR PETROLOGY WHERE SAMBA BELONGS TO:
C:\>net view /domain:petrology
There are no entries in the list.
HOWEVER,
C:\>nbtstat -a zeus
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [131.130.193.136] Scope Id: []
NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
ZEUS <00> UNIQUE Registered
ZEUS <03> UNIQUE Registered
ZEUS <20> UNIQUE Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered
PETROLOGY <00> GROUP Registered
PETROLOGY <1B> UNIQUE Registered
PETROLOGY <1C> GROUP Registered
PETROLOGY <1D> UNIQUE Registered
PETROLOGY <1E> GROUP Registered
MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00
THE NEXT IS SURPRIZING:
C:\>net use x: \\zeus\install
The command completed successfully.
LOOK NOW AT THE FOLLOWING DIALOG ON THE SAMBA SERVER
****************************************************
root at zeus: smbclient -L zeus
INFO: Debug class all level = 3 (pid 645 from pid 645)
added interface ip=131.130.193.148 bcast=131.130.193.191 nmask=255.255.255.192
Got a positive name query response from 127.0.0.1 ( 131.130.193.148 )
Password:
Domain=[PETROLOGY] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.2]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
homes Disk Home Directories on zeus
netlogon Disk Network Logon Service
Profiles Disk
install Disk Installation software on zeus
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server 2.2.2 on zeus)
ADMIN$ Disk IPC Service (Samba Server 2.2.2 on zeus)
_default Printer
hplj1200 Printer
mx4d4 Printer
mx4d1 Printer
root Disk Home Directories on zeus
Server Comment
--------- -------
LITHOS
SILT
SPINELL
ZEUS Samba Server 2.2.2 on zeus
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
PET.UNIVIE PW2400
PETROLOGY ZEUS
root at zeus: nmblookup -T petrology#1d
INFO: Debug class all level = 3 (pid 670 from pid 670)
added interface ip=131.130.193.148 bcast=131.130.193.191 nmask=255.255.255.192
bind succeeded on port 0
Socket opened.
querying petrology on 131.130.193.191
Got a positive name query response from 131.130.193.148 ( 131.130.193.148 )
zeus, 131.130.193.148 petrology<1d>
root at zeus: nmblookup -T petrology#1b
INFO: Debug class all level = 3 (pid 672 from pid 672)
added interface ip=131.130.193.148 bcast=131.130.193.191 nmask=255.255.255.192
bind succeeded on port 0
Socket opened.
querying petrology on 131.130.193.191
Got a positive name query response from 131.130.193.148 ( 131.130.193.148 )
zeus, 131.130.193.148 petrology<1b>
root at zeus:
root at zeus: nmblookup -T petrology#1c
INFO: Debug class all level = 3 (pid 878 from pid 878)
added interface ip=131.130.193.148 bcast=131.130.193.191 nmask=255.255.255.192
bind succeeded on port 0
Socket opened.
querying petrology on 131.130.193.191
Got a positive name query response from 131.130.193.148 ( 131.130.193.148 )
zeus, 131.130.193.148 petrology<1c>
Log files at level 3 do not show any problems.
Are there any suggestions about this problem?
thanks in
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Prof. Dr. Konstantin Petrakakis
Institute of Petrology
University of Vienna Tel.: 0043 1 4277 533 60
Althanstraße 14 Fax: 0043 1 4277 9533
A-1090 Vienna E-mail:
Austria Konstantin.Petrakakis at univie.ac.at
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