[Samba] NetBios problem with Samba 2.x

Nate Schindler nate at riconcorp.com
Fri Oct 15 18:42:48 GMT 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Grewell [mailto:agrewell at uwb.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:36 AM
> To: Nate Schindler
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] NetBios problem with Samba 2.x
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 11:30 -0700, Nate Schindler wrote:
> > I'm in a bit of a pickle, and I need some help.
> > 
> > I'm forced to disable netbios on any machine that leaves 
> the company because of how MS Exchange works over a VPN.
> > I have Samba 2.x on two Compaq Tru64 5.x machines, each 
> with one (public) share.
> > 
> > With netbios enabled, the client machines can access the 
> share with no issues.  With netbios disabled, I get something 
> like "No network provider accepted the given network path."
> 
> 
> I don't think Samba 2 supported DNS resolution.  IIRC it requires
> NetBIOS Name Resolution in order to correctly resolve.  Can you go
> direct to the IP?
> 
No, I get the same error.  So I guess I should look into the compile problems with samba 3 again...

Thanks :) 


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