called name not present SOLVED

[David Bear]

sorry to trouble the group on this one.  The problem was twofold

1) in my smb.conf on machine at 120.183 I hand the entry "dns proxy =
yes"

AND

2) a very old and outdated DNS entry that needs to be removed.

whoa..

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:35:26PM -0600, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:57:10AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, David Bear wrote:
> > 
> > > I've encountered a strange error.  I have samba 2.2.7 installed on
> > > freebsd 4.7.  I've run testparm on the smb.conf and don't see any
> > > errors.  I can connect to a service from a windows 2k machine using
> > > standard net use commands.  
> > > 
> > > HOWEVER, when I try to use smbclient from another machine to view my
> > > bsd samba, I get the following error:
> > > 
> > > ====================================================
> > > bash-2.05a$ smbclient -L //npcenter
> > > added interface ip=129.219.120.183 bcast=129.219.120.191
> > > nmask=255.255.255.192
> > > session request to NPCENTER failed (Called name not present)
> > > Password:
> > > Anonymous login successful
> > > Domain=[CUI] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> > > tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME
> > > ======================================================
> > 
> > Hmmm, I am not aware of any version of Samba claiming to be Windows 5.0 or 
> > Windows 2000 LAN Manager.
> > 
> > Are you sure that you are connecting to a Samba server, and not, say, a 
> > Win2K server by some accident?
> 
> Richard is being polite.  :)
> 
> That definitley shows that you've connected to a W2K machine.  The best 
> guess is that the name NPCENTER is in use by both machines, and that the 
> W2K system is answering first when the query goes out (either that, or you 
> are using WINS and the W2K system has registered that name in the NBNS 
> database).
> 
> The NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME error code seems to confirm this, but I'm not 
> sure.
> 
> A tcpdump trace showing ports 137 and 139 would help.
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 
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David Bear
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