[Samba] NetBios problem with Samba 2.x

Nate Schindler nate at riconcorp.com
Fri Oct 15 19:48:06 GMT 2004



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernando Ribeiro [mailto:musb at nerdgroup.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:54 AM
> To: Aaron Grewell
> Cc: Nate Schindler; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] NetBios problem with Samba 2.x
> 
> 
> Palavras de Aaron Grewell [Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:35:52AM -0700]:
> > 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?
> > 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	I have same problem with samba 3.0.7 :-(
> 
> Thanks

I gave 3.0.x another shot, and although I had a lot of warnings, 3.0.7 did compile.  With netbios disabled on the windows client, the share *does* load now. (yay!)

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