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:
[wstido...@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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