[Samba] NMB problem

Steve Hayes steve at khatovartech.com
Sun Jun 30 13:51:03 GMT 2002


Con,

Thanks very much for this suggestion. I've changed the network to start
from 192.168.1.0. However, the problem remains as previously described
(with a different number for the subnet *s*).

Can anyone provide any further suggestions?

Thanks,
Steve 

On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 21:16, Con Harte wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Some systems (especially routers) will not use Subnet Zero by default.
> If at all possible in your setup try starting you IP networks from
> 192.168.1.0 and so on.  This may not be the cause of your problems,
> but making this change will be the most future-proof and compatible
> way of numbering your networks.
> 
> At the very least I would suggest changing the IP address temporarily
> on the Samba machine only.
> 
> I haven't read the source for nmbd but it is possible that even if
> all systems on your network understand the broadcast address of
> 192.168.0.255, it could be the case that nmbd has a bug in it regarding
> this particular subnet zero issue.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Con.
> 
> At 10:16 29/06/02, you wrote:
> >I'm configuring Samba on a Red Hat Linux 7.2 server, for access from a
> >Windows 2000 client. My server name is DEMENTIA, and it's IP address is
> >192.168.0.5. I've confirmed with ifconfig that the server's broadcast
> >address is 192.168.0.255.
> >
> >I'm having a problem with NMB that I seem to have isolated to the
> >following symptoms -
> >
> >After starting NMBD, I can lookup the server name using unihost:
> >
> >nmblookup -U 192.168.0.5 DEMENTIA
> >Querying DEMENTIA on 192.168.0.5
> >Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.5 ( 192.168.0.5 )
> >192.168.0.5 DEMENTIA<00>
> >
> >But when I try to do the equivalent operation via the broadcast address
> >the lookup fails
> >
> >nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 DEMENTIA
> >Querying DEMENTIA on 192.168.0.255
> >name_query failed to find name DEMENTIA<00>
> >
> >The unihost example seems to indicate that NMB is up and running. I
> >can't find any errors in the logs. I suspect that there's some
> >configuration option in smb.conf that I'm either setting or not setting
> >correctly, but I can't figure out which ones.
> >
> >I set "bind interfaces only = no", as I saw some documentation that
> >indicated this might be related.
> >
> >My hosts allow = 192.168.0.255 192.168. 127.
> >
> >At this stage I don't know where to look next. Can anyone make a
> >suggestion?
> >
> >Regards,
> >--
> >Steve Hayes
> >Khatovar Technology Pty. Ltd.
> >steve at khatovartech.com
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> >
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