[Samba] Netbios Problem

[S. J. van Harmelen]

Are your workstations and your server on the same subnet? Is your nmbd
service running?

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 08:42 -0600, Jeff Herbeck wrote:
> Thanks!  That worked, but that just seems like a way to "trick" it
> into working.  
> 
> I have a unbuntu workstation that can't "see" www and another XP
> machine that can't see www.  
> 
> Even with the change to my hosts file on this XP box, I still can't go
> into network neighborhood and see www.  Every other time I have setup
> samba it was browseable and worked from any other computer with no
> configuration  
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On 11/12/06, S. J. van Harmelen <sander.vanharmelen at isp.solcon.nl>
> wrote: 
>         Jeff,
>         
>         Sounds like a name resolution problem on your XP workstation.
>         Make sure
>         the following line is in C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
>         on you XP 
>         workstation:
>         
>         192.168.1.1   www
>         
>         Then try to ping the www from your workstation again. If it
>         pings, then
>         \\www sould also work.
>         
>         Sander
>         
>         
>         On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 07:10 -0600, Jeff Herbeck wrote: 
>         > Hello Everyone,
>         >
>         > I have recently built a new CentOS 4 server and I am having
>         trouble with
>         > Samba and specifically Netbios names.   The server also acts
>         as a router,
>         > firewall, dhcp, and so on. 
>         >
>         > I have a very simple setup and no matter what I try, I can't
>         get to my samba
>         > server by name.
>         >
>         > The servers IP is:
>         >
>         > 192.168.1.1
>         > 
>         > The server name is:
>         >
>         > www
>         >
>         >
>         > I can not ping www (my XP workstation says "could not find
>         host www")
>         > I can not access my samba shares with \\www
>         >
>         > If I type in \\192.168.1.1 everything works fine 
>         >
>         > I kept thinking it was my firewall (shorewall configured
>         with webmin), but
>         > even when I turn the firewall off, I still have the same
>         problem.
>         >
>         > I have tried many combinations of opened ports on my
>         firewall with no 
>         > success.  Right now I have:
>         >
>         > loc to firewall open on UDP 137
>         > loc to firewall open on TCP 137, 138, 139
>         > loc to firewall open on TCP 445
>         >
>         > I had a fedora server in the past and samba worked like a
>         dream. 
>         >
>         > I'm down to a really simple smb.conf.  Here that is:
>         >
>         > [global]
>         >     workgroup = workgroup
>         > #     netbios name = WWW            (I have tried it with
>         and without this
>         > line) 
>         >     security = user
>         >     encrypt passwords = yes
>         >
>         > [homes]
>         >
>         >     browseable = yes
>         >     writeable = yes
>         >
>         > Here is my hosts file
>         > 127.0.0.1               www.mydomain.com www
>         localhost.localdomain localhost
>         > 192.168.1.1             www
>         >
>         > Does anyone have any ideas? 
>         >
>         > Thanks in advance,
>         >
>         > Jeff
>