samba will not work for me... :/

[Unix Rookie]

I ran through DIAGNONSIS.txt again.

I seem to have problems with test 5 and test 8.

The solutions for test 5 are non-existant... which is sorta annoying.  And as
for test 8 I've done the lmhost thing to resolve the problem but it still
doesn't work... which makes me believe that test 8 is dependant on test 5.

I need to back stuff to my FreeBSD box so that I can do some reinstalls...
anyone have ANY ideas... maybe a less problematic (for me anyways) alternative
to Samba?

-Sameer

--- Unix Rookie <unixrookie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:
> > Walk through the trouble shooting document, DIAGNOSIS.txt in the samba
> > distribution.
> > Joel
> 
> 
> Alright... I ran through the entire DIAGNOSIS.txt file... and everything
> check
> out... (w/ exception of the 'net view' statement)
> 
> There was something that might be odd.  I don't know if might indicate a
> problem or not.
> 
> Test 5 says the following:
> 
> TEST 5:
> -------
> 
> run the command "nmblookup -B ACLIENT '*'"
> 
> You should get the PCs IP address back. If you don't then the client
> software on the PC isn't installed correctly, or isn't started, or you
> got the name of the PC wrong.
> 
> If ACLIENT doesn't resolve via DNS then use the IP address of the
> client in the above test.
> 
> 
> 
> Now this is the output I get:
> 
> 
> (FreeBSD Machine)# ./nmblookup -B (win98se machine) '*'
> INFO: Debug class all level = 2   (pid 15418 from pid 15418)
> added interface ip=192.168.1.105 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> querying * on 192.168.1.103
> name_query failed to find name *
> 
> 
> 
> It maps the name to the address... but what's this "name_query failed to find
> name * " all about?
> 
> -Sameer
> 
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