[Samba] BUG report: smbclient

[John H Terpstra]

Mark,

I dusted off my crytal ball and as I was polishing it there was a small
response. :)

Now back to your issue:

1. Is your samba server set up with "wins support = Yes"?

2. Do ALL your MS Windows clients TCP/IP configurations for WINS Address
have the IP address of your Samba server that is running per 1. above?

3. Have you checked in the wins.dat file on the samba server that ALL your
MS Windows clients have entries for:
	MACHINENAME<0x00>
	MACHINENAME<0x03>
	MACHINENAME<0x20>

If not, this is the first issue that must be resolved.

Let me know what you find here, then if necessary we can take a few more
steps together (we can do this without a crystal ball if we work at it).

Cheers,
John T.


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, mark wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:40:29 -0600 (CST)
> "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org> wrote:
>
> > > [root at server root]# smbclient -M condor
> > > added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255
> > > nmask=255.255.255.0 Cannot resolve name condor#0x3
> >
> > In this case, smbclient has to resolve the netbios name
> > (not DNS name) of the messenger service.  This is not a bug.
> > If you correct the problems with your netbuios name resolution,
> > this will work fine.
> >
> I have this problem, too.  I seem to have an otherwise working wins
> server
>
> smbclient -L //lespaul
> added interface ip=192.168.0.56 bcast=192.168.0.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0 Got a positive name query response from
> 192.168.0.13 ( 192.168.0.62 )
>
> but with smbclient -M I get
>
> echo "hello" |smbclient -M lespaul
> added interface ip=192.168.0.56 bcast=192.168.0.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0 Cannot resolve name lespaul#0x3
>
>
> It does seem to be winxp related as in the following
>
> >smbclient -M strider
> added interface ip=192.168.0.56 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.13 ( 192.168.0.57 )
> Connected. Type your message, ending it with a Control-D
> sent 0 bytes
>
> > smbclient -M lespaul
> added interface ip=192.168.0.56 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Cannot resolve name lespaul#0x3
>
> lespaul is winxp and strider is winme.
>
> And if I try to give an explicit ip address:
>
> > smbclient -M LESPAUL -I 192.168.0.62
> added interface ip=192.168.0.56 bcast=192.168.0.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0 session request failed
>
> > ping 192.168.0.62
> PING 192.168.0.62 (192.168.0.62): 56 octets data
> 64 octets from 192.168.0.62: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=3.0 ms
> 64 octets from 192.168.0.62: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=3.9 ms
>
> --- 192.168.0.62 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 3.0/3.4/3.9 ms
>
> So how do I need to fix my wins server?  Obviously I'm just looking for
> things I should try first.  Not for anyone to use their well-worn
> crystal balls to spot a flaw in my smb.conf.  Which I haven't
> attached.  Or to figure out I've got a bad nic or cable.  But if anyone
> has a NEW crystal ball and can tell me it's a nic or cable, well THAT
> would be cool...
>
> mark
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org