[Samba] nmblookup can't resolve IPs (but SMB-names)

Herb Lewis herb at sgi.com
Wed Feb 12 18:44:02 GMT 2003


When using an IP address you need the -A option 

nmblookup -d 3 -A 210.104.1.133

Pascal Giannakakis wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> i have Samba 2.2.7a running on FreeBSD-STABLE 4.7. I set up a few things and
> smbd and
> nmbd start up at boot, i can browse the net.
> 
> However, nmblookup can only find IPs by SMB-names, but not SMB-names by IPs.
> Here is
> an example output of the failed lookup:
> 
> %nmblookup -d 3 210.104.1.133
> Initialising global parameters
> params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file
> "/usr/local/etc/smb.conf"
> Processing section "[global]"
> added interface ip=210.104.1.133 bcast=210.104.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> bind succeeded on port 0
> Socket opened.
> querying 210.104.1.133 on 210.104.1.255
> name_query failed to find name 210.104.1.133
> 
> Why is it not working? We do not have a WINS in our network and it uses
> default
> "lmhosts host wins bcast" name resolve order. I get the same output for any
> IP in our
> network. Other ppl can see and browse my PC.
> 
> Thanx.
> 
> 
> 
> PS: here is the log of the working lookup:
> 
> %nmblookup -d 3 KATWS_PG
> Initialising global parameters
> params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file
> "/usr/local/etc/smb.conf"
> Processing section "[global]"
> added interface ip=210.104.1.133 bcast=210.104.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> bind succeeded on port 0
> Socket opened.
> querying KATWS_PG on 210.104.1.255
> Got a positive name query response from 210.104.1.133 ( 210.104.1.133 )
> 210.104.1.133 KATWS_PG<00>
> 
> 
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