[Samba] Netbios and Samba

[Joel Hammer]

I don't think this a samba problem, yet. Not being able to ping your
samba box means there is a network issue, independent of samba.

BTW, if I try nmblookup -M mymasterbrowser, I get nothing too.
Try nmblookup -M '-'
Try nmblookup -M TEST
Joel

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:07:46PM -0400, Nathan Thaler wrote:
> I can't seem to get the Windows machines (1x 2000 , 2x XP. 1x 98) on my 
> network to see my Linux box's Netbios name (meadow).
> 
> "net view \\meadow" yields "Network path not found" and "ping \\meadow" 
> yields "ping could not find the host meadow" (both commands run on Windows 
> boxes)    The Linux box is a x86 machine running Redhat 7.3 (2.4.18-5 
> kernel) and Samba 2.2.3a (built via RPM as part of the Redhat 
> install).  Running testparm results in no errors.  The smb.conf is 
> extremely basic (just in case, I listed the full text at the bottom of this 
> message).  "nmblookup -S meadow" yields the following:
> 
> --------
> querying meadow on 192.168.1.255
> 192.168.1.104 meadow<00>
> Looking up status of 192.168.1.104
>          MEADOW          <00> -         B <ACTIVE>
>          MEADOW          <03> -         B <ACTIVE>
>          MEADOW          <20> -         B <ACTIVE>
>          ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
>          TEST            <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
>          TEST            <1d> -         B <ACTIVE>
>          TEST            <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
> --------
> 
> (My workgroup, for now, is called "TEST").
> 
> However, "nmblookup -M Meadow" yields:
> 
> ----------
> querying Meadow on 192.168.1.255
> name_query failed to find name Meadow#1d
> ----------
> 
> The above doesn't make any sense to me.  This is the only machine in the 
> workgroup Test, so it should automatically become the master browser.  In 
> an attempt to force this Linux box to become a master browser, I added 
> "remote announce = 192.168.1.255" in the global section of smb.conf (though 
> it doesn't seem to make any difference).  I have waited up to 48 minutes 
> (as suggested by the docs) after every change to make sure that the host 
> information propagates to all subnets, but it doesn't make any 
> difference.  And, although both the Windows machines and the Linux box are 
> connected through a Linksys Cable/DSL router, none of the settings suggest 
> that it's blocking ports 137-139 on the Linux box's IP.   I don't believe 
> that it has a universal role blocking the Netbios ports, because I was able 
> to create a share on the Win98 machine and view it on a Win 2K 
> machine.  I've started, stopped, and restarted /etc/init.d/smb several 
> times, and SMB and NMB start up without any problems every time.  (SMB runs 
> as service upon startup in rc3 and rc5 as well).
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what's causing this problem and what a solution to it 
> might be?   Nothing in the samba list archives matches this problem.
> 
> 
> ----------
> #smb.conf:
> 
> 
> [global]
>          workgroup = TEST
>          netbios name = MEADOW
>          server string = Samba Server
>          remote announce = 192.168.1.255 # as suggested by the samba 
> documentation, but doesn't seem to help
>          encrypt passwords = Yes
>          obey pam restrictions = Yes
>          pam password change = Yes
>          passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>          passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n 
> *passwd:*al
> l*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
>          unix password sync = Yes
>          log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>          max log size = 0
>          socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>          dns proxy = No
>          guest account = smbusr
>          printing = lprng
> 
> [homes]
>          comment = Home Directories
>          valid users = %S
>          read only = No
>          create mask = 0664
>          directory mask = 0775
>          browseable = Yes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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