[Samba] PDC and routing

[D. Rick Anderson]

GOT IT!   It was the UNDERSCORE in the netbios name (SAMBA_SERVER). Once I
took that out everything else fell right into place.

Thanks a million for all your help!

Rick



> AH HAH! The workstation CAN'T see the Samba server when I try to browse
> it using \\SAMBA_SERVER ! hmmmmm.
>
> The /etc/samba/lmhosts file has this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.51.3    SAMBA_SERVER
>
> and I have
>
> wins support = Yes
>
> in the /etc/samba/smb.conf
>
> and 192.168.51.3 as the Primary Wins server on the workstation as well
> as the Primary and Secondary DNS servers for our Internet service.
>
> Is there something else I need to set up for this? Man .. this has gone
> from one problem, to a completely different one! ;-)
>
> Thanks again for your help,
>
> Rick
>
>> My suggestion would be to make sure your workstation can resolve the
>> UNC of  the samba server. You have our choice of two naming methods
>> for Windows  2000. You have Wins, or DNS. DNS is used primarily in
>> Active Directory  environments. Since you are not using AD, then your
>> Wins setup must be  flawless.
>>
>>
>> Errol
>>
>>
>> At 09:25 AM 6/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>>No .. there's no firewall. The samba server is at 192.168.51.3, and
>>> the
>>> workstation I'm working with is at 192.168.50.120. Everything seems
>>> to be routing across the networks just fine. I can FTP to the server
>>> and browse web pages there on the machine.
>>>
>>>I have 192.168.51.3 set as the primary Wins server on the 2000 box and
>>> I checked again to verify that wins support = Yes was set. All of the
>>> 2000 boxes that are on the local network work just fine.
>>>
>>>I also checked that the TCP/IP NetBIOS helper was running on the
>>> client, and as is par with most of my problems, everything looks just
>>> fine.
>>>
>>>ARRRGGHHHHH   =)
>>>
>>>Rick
>>>
>>> > Is there a firewall or some kind of filtering action happening
>>> between the  two networks? If so, try opening up the communications
>>> wide between the  two  networks. Secondly, make sure your windows
>>> systems are configured to  use your samba server as their primary
>>> wins server.
>>> >
>>> > Errol
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > At 08:54 AM 6/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>> >>OK ... that got me closer than I've been.
>>> >>
>>> >>When I try to join the domain now, it pops up and asks for a
>>> username
>>> >> and password, as it should, but when I enter root/password and hit
>>> enter, it hangs for a few seconds, then errors out with:
>>> >>
>>> >>The following error occurred attempting to join the domain
>>> "domain";
>>> >>
>>> >>The network path was not found.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>I found some documentation about this being some strange XP
>>> problem,
>>> >> but this is 2000, and when I tried the fix they suggested it
>>> didn't
>>> work. At least I'm a step closer. Any ideas?
>>> >>
>>> >>Thanks again,
>>> >>
>>> >>Rick
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> > I think you may want to use the "remote announce" directive.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Errol
>>> >> >
>>> >> > At 08:25 AM 6/3/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>> >> >>I know this must have been answered 3 million times, but I can't
>>> >> find
>>> >> >> it. I need to have some windows 2000 machines on a different
>>> >> network connect to our Samba PDC.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>The few documents that I've read said that a Wins server will
>>> >> resolve
>>> >> >> the issue, but they don't explain any more than that. I have
>>> wins
>>> >> support = Yes in the smb.conf, and I have the IP of the samba
>>> server in the Wins of the Win2K box, but it still doesn't find the
>>> domain. Is there something else that I need to configure?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>TIA
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>Rick
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
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