[Samba] Smbclient Connection to Samba server failed

[Herb Lewis]

pinging doesn't mean the WINS service is running. Try sending
a name resolution query to the WINS server using

nmblookup -R -U 172.16.0.121 MySQL


Kenneth Illingsworth wrote:
> 
> I played with the smb.config file long enough to get both the smbd and nmbd daemons to run. Then ran TESTPARM against the correct smb,conf file without issue. Finally I tried the following command:
> 
> [root at cofr3 /]# smbclient -U illingsk -L MySQL
> 
> added interface ip=172.17.60.6 bcast=172.17.63.255 nmask=255.255.248.0
> wins_srv_died(): WINS server 172.16.0.121 appears to be down.
> Connection to MySQL failed
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The paradox to me is that I can ping the WINS server ok:
> 
> C:\>ping -a 172.16.0.121
> 
> Pinging ELY [172.16.0.121] with 32 bytes of data:
> 
> Reply from 172.16.0.121: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 172.16.0.121: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 172.16.0.121: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
> Reply from 172.16.0.121: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
> 
> Ping statistics for 172.16.0.121:
>     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>     Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms
> 

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Herb Lewis                               Silicon Graphics 
Networking Engineer                      1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy MS-510
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