[Samba] Can't open shares using netbios names

[Wayne Stidolph]

I need a pointer to what Fine Manual I should go read to set up my 
netbios name resolution, because all my attempts to use netbios names 
are being resolved against dns ...

I have one subnet (192.168.2/24), with several Fedora 11 machines and 
several Windows XP machines, and a couple SMB/CIFS NAS units which also 
share printers. No domain, it's all just a workgroup. The WinXP machines 
seem to be working just fine ... but, I can't connect to anything using 
smb with names from the Fedora 11 machines.

I can do nmblookup <windows server name> and I get back the IP address 
of that server, looking like this:

[wstidolph at bunter plugins]$ nmblookup synology
querying synology on 192.168.2.255
192.168.2.104 synology<00>

I can do smbclient -L 192.168.2.104
and I get back the shares list.

I can mount a share using
mount -t cifs //192.168.2.104/public /mnt/testing

and then the share is mounted just fine

But, if I try to use the *names* then I get a very long delay and a 
failure .... this does not work:

smbclient -L synology  (nor does sbmclient -L //synology)

The Nautilus browser will let me browse into my workgroup, will list all 
the servers ... but as soon as I double-click on one of the servers to 
navigate into it, I get the same long delay and failure. The failure 
usually is a timeout or has an NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED attached to it, 
and it will be from an external IP address - in this case, an IP address 
associated with synology.com. So I see that there's something amiss with 
my (netbios?) name resolution.

I have enabled wins support in smb.conf.

In /etc/nsswitch.conf I have tried
hosts:      files wins bcast dns

What's next - do I have to hardcode the names into an lmhosts file?

   -- Wayne