[Samba] Re: Can't access remote server

[Joel Hammer]

What does ps ax | grep nmbd show on the box you can't connect to?
Sometimes nmbd exits if there is an error of some sort or another.
Joel

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:28:35PM -0600, Kent Wang wrote:
> I've run iptables -L and iptables -t nat -L and there are no settings. I've
> setup iptables lots of times before so I'm pretty familiar with it.
> 
> A few things that are bugging me is that I have a smb entry in my
> /etc/rc.d/init.d but no nmbd entry. Has this been merged into one entry? It
> doesn't seem like my nmb functionality is actually broken as nmblookup -B
> webdev.ic2.org __SAMBA__ runs successfully on the server.
> 
> However, this command when run from a remote machine fails:
> 
> [kwang at gorgon kwang]$ nmblookup -B webdev.ic2.org __SAMBA__
> querying __SAMBA__ on 128.83.222.87
> name_query failed to find name __SAMBA__
> 
> DIAGNOSIS.txt has been pretty helpful, but I'm stuck on Test 8. I'm not sure
> how to "fixup the nmbd installation" but I've managed to do all the other
> recommended solutions with no success.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for your help so far.
> 
> Kent Wang
>