[Samba] Failed to send packet on .255

Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Wed Jul 8 23:49:56 MDT 2009


Todd Chester kirjoitti:
> Hi All,
> 
> On my first internal NIC, Samba is working perfectly.
> 
> On my new, second internal NIC, I am getting the following in my
> messages log:
> 
> libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(793)
> Packet send failed to 192.168.254.255(138) ERRNO=Operation not permitted
> 
> nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:send_netbios_packet(163)
> send_netbios_packet: send_packet() to IP 192.168.254.255 port 137 failed
> 
> I though .255 was a reserved address.  What is the error all about?
> There is only one computer on my new second nic: 192.168.254.12 and
> it is in test phase.

Sounds like firewall issue to me.

what iptables -L -v print on root?

--
Eero,
RCHE



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