[Samba] Can't open shares using netbios names

Wayne Stidolph wayne at stidolph.com
Sat Aug 15 20:56:11 MDT 2009


Responding to myself - I stripped out the use of wins support and name 
resolve order from smb.conf, and took out wins frmo nsswitch.conf hosts 
line, and waited for a while ... and it started working. I wonder if I 
was making changes too fast and not giving caches time to clear?

   -- Wayne

On 08/15/2009 06:17 PM, Wayne Stidolph wrote:
> 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
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