[Samba] NetBios name resolution from WINDOWS

[John H Terpstra]

On Friday 16 May 2008 09:09:53 am Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been following a similar and current thread about name resolution
> from LINUX side.
>
> I have exactly the opposite problem (running ubuntu 7.10 on a network
> with a mixture ubuntu 6.06, WinXP and WinVista boxes)
>
> The winboxes cannot see or mount this 7.10 box
>
> I can mount WinPC shares on this 7.10 box.
> I was wondering about firewalls, but I can ping this 7.10 from the
> WinBox by IP address but _not_ by netbios name.
>
> I do not have any issues on the 8 other ubuntu 6.06 boxes on the network.
>
> The smb.conf files are "largely the same" on both the 6.06 boxes and the
> 7.10 box.
> If I ping by IP - I get a response.
> If I ping gm0:  Ping request could not find gm0.....
> If I ping gm0.geograph.co.za then it works and I get the correct IP
> address too.
> The above pings are from a VISTA box.
>
> ps -ef shows nmbd is running
>
> By the way, from windows vista explorer, _all_ of these attempts return
>
> :  "windows cannot find \\xxxxx. check spelling and try again."
>
> \\gm0
> \\gm0.geograph.co.za
> \\192.168.0.1                # which is the fixed IP for gm0, yet
> explorer cannot see it this way
>
> Yet \\gl0 and all the other linux boxes are accessible from this Vista box.
>
>
> BTW: I'm not considering firewall & Squid proxy stuff on this gm0 box
> because ping does work with full name (gm0.geograph.co.za)
>
> Can someone please give me some ideas to work on?
>
> Thanks,
> Zoltan

Zoltan,

Check on your Windows client, in the TCP/IP Advanced settings that you have 
enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

- John T.