[Samba] Re: Re: Can't access remote server

[Kent Wang]

2934 ?        S      0:04 nmbd -D

So nmbd is running. That's what've been guessing. But why is it that it is
not responding to remote inquiries?

"Joel Hammer" <joel at hammershome.com> wrote in message
news:20031212002423.GA21039 at mail.hammershome.com...
> 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
> >
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