[Samba] Samba and netbios --- HEEEEELLLP!!!

[Dwayne McGarty]

Don't know if this will help but:

I have worked in shops before where the network staff will, in order to
cut down on the amount of bandwidth used by chatty protocols, disallow
windows broadcasts and such to propagate through the network.  It was
getting blocked on the switch the clients were connected to.  The even
go so far as to only allow WINS queries back to the particular port
where the officially blessed site WINS server was connected.

Could be something to find out about from your network guys...


Quoting Dmitry Voronov <dvoronov at uwaterloo.ca>:

> Well, it does matter because that's the only way the other machines
> know 
> you're there. They send out a name query for the domain name and if
> no 
> one responds, it's not there. Same with the name of the machine. My
> 
> problem is actually a little different. After setting up the laptop
> at 
> home and bringing it to work, it worked perfectly fine. I just can't
> get 
> any other machine on the network to follow suit.
> 
> Dmitry
> 
> Enrique Sanchez Vela wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> > I have the same problem at the cust lan, I took the
> >samba server with me, set it up at home and it worked
> >perfectly at the first time, then took it to the
> >office it also worked, but when its time to take it to
> >customer's office, it refuses to work.
> >
> > the only difference is related to tcp/ip name
> >resoultion but it should not matter.
> >
> >regards,
> >esv.
> >
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
> >[mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> >Behalf Of Dmitry Voronov
> >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:31 PM
> >To: samba at lists.samba.org
> >Subject: [Samba] Samba and netbios --- HEEEEELLLP!!!
> >
> >
> >Wow, ok, whatever the problem is, I'm now pretty
> >convinced that it's 
> >over my
> >head. I am trying to setup samba as the PDC for our
> >network. I cannot 
> >for
> >the life of me get it to work. I went home, tried it
> >on my laptop and 
> >it
> >worked in 15 seconds. I came to work, setup the server
> >exactly the same
> >and...nothing. "The domain either does not exist or
> >could not be 
> >contacted"
> >blah blah. I've resorted to looking at the details of
> >what's going on 
> >with
> >ethereal. I can see no difference in the way the two
> >machines register
> >themselves but the server does not respond to name
> >queries, neither to 
> >its
> >netbios name nor the domain name. The laptop does. I
> >am running way 
> >short on
> >ideas. I have tried Potato, Woody, Redhat 7.1, 7.3.
> >7.1 is what's on my
> >laptop. I've tried 2.2.3a-something (6 I think),
> >2.2.4-2. No 
> >difference. I
> >tried duplicating the net setup of the laptop on the
> >server with no 
> >luck
> >(hostnames, static ip etc). I just don't get it. IT
> >SHOULD WORK!!!!!
> >
> >Please help!!!
> >Dmitry
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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