[Samba] Can't open shares using netbios names

[Walter Mautner]

Am Sonntag, 16. August 2009 03:17:41 schrieb 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?
>
You have to hand out your wins server IP to the clients with a dhcp directive 
such as "netbios-name-server IP-OF-WINS", or enter it manuylly in smb.conf for 
the fedora clients ("wins server = IP-OF-WINS" in global section)