[Samba] Mal-Formed Share

[Eric Hines]

Folks,

I'm having a problem connecting to some shares, and not to 
others.  I'm running SUSE 9.3 and Samba 3.0.22pre1 with a Win2k PC on 
one subnet and an XP laptop on a separate subnet.  The problem is 
that with three shares out of eight, I get a "tree connect failed: 
NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME" error message; I get appropriate accesses 
to the remaining five.

Googling the error message and searching the HOWTO didn't turn up any 
solutions, only the statement that this error generally meant that 
the share was badly formed.  Following are the tests I've run that 
have failed, and their results:
         from the server side: smbclient //lserver0/<share> -U 
ehines  ==> the BAD_NETWORK_NAME error message  Note: When I run this 
against the working shares, I get the correct response.
         from the Windows device side: net use \\lserver0\<share> ==> 
"System 67 error...network name cannot be found."  Note: When I run 
this against the working shares, I get the correct response.
         nmblookup -B lserver0 __SAMBA__ ==> "querying SAMBA on 
192.168.2.2...name-query failed to find __SAMBA__"  even though SAMBA 
clearly is running, and I can connect to it from the Windows devices.
         nmblookup -d 2 '*' works to the extent that it finds the PC 
on one subnet, but it does not find the laptop on another subnet 
(even though the laptop is identical to the PC in terms of 
successful--and failed--access to the shares, and SWAT's STATUS 
function shows the laptop as well as the PC to be active).

I have winbind running, WINS Support=Yes, Samba is set as a PDC (I 
think--Preferred Master=Yes).  The offending share setup from 
smb.conf (I've only enclosed one; the three are essentially 
identical) is below, together with the [global] stanza.  If I've 
over-snipped the [global], I'll send the whole thing, but it's a bit long.

[accounts]
         comment = Accounting Files
         path = /data/accounts
         read only = No


[global]
         workgroup = ASTRA_ENT
         netbios name = LSERVER0
         interfaces = 192.168.2.2/24, 192.168.3.1/24, lo
         bind interfaces only = Yes
         passdb backend = tdbsam
         pam password change = Yes
         unix password sync = Yes
         smb ports = 139
         name resolve order = wins bcast hosts
         shutdown script = /var/lib/samba/scripts/shutdown.sh
         abort shutdown script = /sbin/shutdown -c
         domain logons = Yes
         preferred master = Yes
         wins support = Yes

Thanks for your help.

Eric Hines

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