[Samba] Solaris 8 smb problem

[Gary Ferrer]

I'm not sure if this is a samba/solaris problem or a Win98 problem and I'll tell you why.  I have a Solaris 8 server runing samba 2.2.2, a linux/samba 2.0.7 box and a couple Win 98 boxes.  When I did a complete restore of my Win98 box from tape, I could no longer access the Solaris 8 server via network neighbourhood.  I can see the Solaris/samba box there with the other Win98 and linux box but when I double click on the Solaris box I get \\Sunbox is not accessible.  The computer or share name could not be found.  Make sure you typed it in correctly".
This is strange because from the other Win98 box I can access the Solaris samba resource without a problem.  I thought this might be a password problem so I changed my samba password but that didn't work either.  Essentially I cannot access the Solaris/samba resource from just one Win98 workstation (mine).  

Here is a dump of the packets on the sunbox:

(/)-->snoop -d iprb1
Using device /dev/iprb (promiscuous mode)
        gary -> 192.168.0.255 NBT NS Query Request for SUNBOX[20], Success
        gary -> 192.168.0.255 NBT NS Query Request for SUNBOX[20], Success
        melody -> 64.12.25.92  TCP D=5190 S=3137     Ack=3620371547 Seq=399977304 Len=6 Win=9520
        64.12.25.92 -> melody       TCP D=3137 S=5190     Ack=399977310 Seq=3620371547 Len=0 Win=16384
        gary -> 192.168.0.255 NBT NS Query Request for SUNBOX[20], Success
      
The PC 'gary' cannot access samba resource.  All I see are a couple of successful NBT NS query requests but that's all.


This is the snoop with the PC 'melody' that can access the Solaris 8 samba without a problem:

 melody -> 192.168.0.255 NBT NS Query Request for SUNBOX[20], Success
      melody -> sunbox       NBT C port=3399 
      sunbox -> melody       NBT R port=3399 
      melody -> sunbox       NBT C port=3399 
      melody -> sunbox       NBT Type=SESSION REQUEST Dest=SUNBOX[20] Source=MELODY[0] Length=68
      sunbox -> melody       NBT R port=3399 
      sunbox -> melody       NBT Type=POSITIVE SESSION RESPONSE Length=0
      melody -> sunbox       SMB C Code=0x72 Name=SMBnegprot LastDialect=NT LM 0.12 Error=0 
      sunbox -> melody       SMB R Code=0x72 Name=SMBnegprot Dialect#=5 Error=0 
      melody -> sunbox       SMB C Code=0x73 Name=SMBsesssetupX Username=MELODY Error=0 
      sunbox -> melody       NBT R port=3399 
      sunbox -> melody       SMB R Code=0x73 Name=SMBsesssetupX Error=0 
      melody -> sunbox       SMB C Code=0x25 Name=SMBtrans Error=0 
      sunbox -> melody       SMB R Code=0x25 Name=SMBtrans Error=0 
      melody -> sunbox       NBT C port=3399 

Quite different.