[Samba] SAMBA netbois lookup issues

James Taylor jtaylor at laszlosystems.com
Mon Feb 6 19:05:43 GMT 2006


My VPN Address is in a Virtual Pool on the Firewall I am using.  I am able
to connect to any other server other than a Samba server.  If it was a
network related issue would it not be having a problem on all the servers?

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Trimble, Ronald D [mailto:Ronald.Trimble at unisys.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 5:11 PM
To: James Taylor
Subject: RE: [Samba] SAMBA netbois lookup issues

Is your VPN server on the same segment?  I only ask because in our
company, our VPN segment is isolated with it's own DNS servers.  My
guess is that when you come in via VPN, you are using a different DNS
server and you are not registered.  Instead, you are using NetBIOS for
name resolution.  Try putting an A host record on the DNS server used by
your VPN server.

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+ronald.trimble=unisys.com at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+ronald.trimble=unisys.com at lists.samba.org] On
Behalf Of James Taylor
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:43 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] SAMBA netbois lookup issues

Hi all!

 

I am from the Windows world and am trying to migrate to Linux and have
done
a fairly good job so far.  

 

My recent challenge is that I have built a Samba file/print server that
works very well on my internal network but when I VPN into the network
remotely I am unable to access the server via it's server name.  What is
driving me crazy is the fact that the last of my Windows servers is a
file/print server as well and I am able to access it without issues.  Is
this a simple NetBios Port change or is this something else that I am
missing?  

 

If anyone has some pointers as to what I can do to resolve this issue I
would be grateful.

 

Thank you

 

James Taylor

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