[Samba] Samba 3, Windows 2000 and DNS.

Adam Luchjenbroers adam at luchjenbroers.com
Thu Jul 22 05:52:18 GMT 2004


I've got a Samba 3 box running RHEL 3 that has been added to a Windows 2000
domain as a member server, however it cannot be browsed via the network (it
appears within the domain, but does not open the machine).

Its IP address is 10.30.4.1/255.255.252.0, nbtstat.exe on one of the windows
boxes returns as below

P:\>nbtstat -A 10.30.4.1

Local Area Connection 3:
Node IpAddress: [10.30.5.1] Scope Id: []

Host not found.

DNS is used for name resolution and Ping can resolve a name to an IP
address. Smbclient can connect to another host however nmblookup cannot.
Smbclient when directed at itself does not detect the master browser.
[root at testlab-route samba]# smbclient -L router -N
Anonymous login successful

Sharename      Type      Comment
---------      ----      -------
delta          Disk      Delta Testing
IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server router)
ADMIN$         IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server router)
Anonymous login successful

Server               Comment
---------            -------
ROUTER               Samba Server router

Workgroup            Master
---------            -------
DEETTEST

Broadcast pings only return a response from the machines own IP address.

Additionally, while 'net ads join' completes without issue, 'net ads info'
reports as follows:

[root at testlab-route samba]# net ads info
Didn't find the ldap server!

Thanks in advance.


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