SMBD - NMBD problem

Peter Blajev peter at castandcrew.com
Thu Feb 22 01:19:33 GMT 2001


I thing that the lmhost file is not the problem.
It start working when I add the word "host".
But this mean that WINS (or whatever) doesn't work.

Note the difference:
  name resolve order = wins lmhosts
and
  name resolve order = wins lmhosts host

Thanks
Peter

Mike Kennedy wrote:
> 
> It looks like you probably have a conflict between your WINS server
> information and your lmhosts information. Thats why it works when
> you use "name resolve order".
> 
> If you are using WINS you shouldn't need a lmhosts file anyway. As
> long as all the machines you are trying to connect to are registering
> with the WINS server.
> 
> --
> Mike Kennedy
> Systems Group, C&C
> mikek at syrinx.ucr.edu
> 909.787.5922
> 
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Peter Blajev wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I realy need your help.
> > It looks like SMBD doesn't want to talk with NMBD, but why?
> >
> > When I run the command: nmblookup torpc8
> > The result is:
> > querying torpc8 on 10.5.255.255
> > Got a positive name query response from 10.5.2.27 ( 10.5.2.27 )
> > 10.5.2.27 torpc8<00>
> > That is correct.
> >
> > When I run the command: smbclient -NL torpc8
> > The result is:
> > resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name torpc8<0x20>
> > bind succeeded on port 0
> > resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name torpc8<0x20>
> > Connection to torpc8 failed
> >
> > Here is the enteries in log.nmb file:
> >   wins_process_name_query: name query for name TORPC8<20> from IP
> > 127.0.0.1
> > [2001/02/21 19:28:17, 3]
> > nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:wins_process_name_query_request(
> > 1362)
> >
> > TORPC8 is a workstation with some shares. If I use "name resolve order =
> > wins lmhosts host"
> > it's work perfect. But I want to be sure that wins is working.
> >
> > Here is the smb.conf:
> > [global]
> >    # interfaces     = 127.0.0.1/8 10.5.1.12/255.255.0.0
> >    # bind interfaces only = no
> >    workgroup      = TORONTO
> >    guest account  = nobody
> >    password level = 8
> >    log file       = /var/log/samba/logs/log.%m
> >    lock directory = /var/log/samba/locks
> >
> >    # Make wins work
> >    wins support   = yes
> >    wins proxy  = yes
> >    domain master = yes
> >    local master   = yes
> >    preferred master = yes
> >    os level       = 65
> >    browse list    = yes
> >    name resolve order = wins lmhosts
> >
> > Any seqgestion are highly appreciate.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your time.
> > Peter
> >




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