SAMBA digest 2033

Jess Mahan jessm at cinebase.com
Wed Mar 24 22:00:28 GMT 1999


Patrick,
Try re-installing the IP stacj of the windows machine, and re-install the nic card,
this should work, i have had this problem before with windows machine, another thing
is look for "LM Announce" in the Microsoft Networking Properties, and set this to yes.


> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:06:40 -0000 (GMT)
> From: Patrick Gardella <patrick at cre8tivegroup.com>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: name_query failed: Samba 2.0.3
> Message-ID: <XFMail.990324110640.patrick at cre8tivegroup.com>
>
> I'm stumped on getting Samba to work again on our small network.  I've
> got one Windows 95 machine that started to refuse to talk to Samba last
> week.  I *was* running one of the 1.9.18 releases, but when it stopped
> working, I figured I would delete the old release and do a clean
> install of 2.0.3.  I've done that, and used SWAT to configure the
> smb.conf file (which can be seen below).  testparm smb.conf did not
> return any errors.
>
> I believe the problem is on the Windows side of things, but I don't
> know where.
>
> Some data on the setup:
> Samba 2.0.3 running under FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE
> Local network is 192.168.1.*
> Samba server (AKA GATEWAY, AKA SERVER): 192.168.1.3
> Windows machine (AKA LINDA): 192.168.1.7
> Samba is set to be a WINS server and LINDA points to it.
>
> lmhosts set to the above IPs.
>
> Using DIAGNOSIS.txt, I can get to TEST 5, where by I get the following:
>
> gateway# nmblookup -B LINDA '*'
> Added interface ip=192.168.1.3 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Sending queries to 192.168.1.7
> name_query failed to find name *
>
> TEST 4 shows Samba running:
>
> gateway# nmblookup -B SERVER __SAMBA__
> Added interface ip=192.168.1.3 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Sending queries to 0.0.0.0
> Got a positive name query response from 127.0.0.1 ( 192.168.1.3 )
> 192.168.1.3 __SAMBA__<00>
>
> TEST 8 also fails with an Error 51.
>
> Do I need to set Samba as the Domain Master Browser to get this to
> work?  (It's not been this much trouble before! I "dislike" windows...)
>
> See below the smb.conf, log.smb and log.nmb files (Debug level 2).
>
> Patrick



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