[Samba] stale name lookup result SOLVED

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:

> I am running a Samba 3.0.10 server on freeBSD and 3.0.10-Debian client.  I 
> just had a perplexing problem.
>
> The client is a laptop and moves about different samba networks.  My home 
> computer's name (Unix hostname and samba name) is 'ocean'.  When I'm at home 
> I run smbmount //ocean/mydir /mnt/samba/ocean/mydir -o <options>
>
> Normally this is fine.  I've been running the same script to do this for 
> about 2 years, without problems.
>
> But this morning when I tried to connect it kept telling me
> timeout connecting to NOT.MY.IP.ADDR:445
> timeout connecting to NOT.MY.IP.ADDR:139
>
> [NOT.MY.IP.ADDR is replaced by an actual IP address that I've never seen 
> before, but belongs to a separate wireless network that I occasionally visit]
>
> Running nmblookup:
> # nmblookup ocean
> querying ocean on 192.168.0.255         <-- this IS my network
> 192.168.0.5 ocean<00>			<-- this IS the right IP address
>
> Ocean is right there in the next room -- AND it's acting as a WINS server -- 
> AND nmblookup seems to find it just fine.  Why is my laptop trying to connect 
> to the wrong host?


The last time I had connected to a wireless network, my client software 
created a file /etc/samba/dhcp.conf which had stale information.  I 
deleted that file, and then deleted /var/run/samba/gencache.tdb, and that 
solved the problem.

-Brandon