Using WINS is really the stable way to go -- any reason you can't? ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630
On Thu, 22 May 2003, Paul Kraus wrote: > No wins server. All done by broadcast. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Morel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] Net bios Look ups > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Kraus wrote: > | For some reason all of my Linux servers all of a sudden can't look up > | net bios names. Everything has been working great for months. > | > | If I do an smbclient -L ipaddress on any of them they all can see the > | master browser and show its name in the output. > | > | But if I try and do an smbclient -L systemname it immediately dumps > | out to the internet and tries to resolve the name using DNS. > | > | This of course does not work. > | > | I have many scripts that rely on mount -t smbfs that no longer work > | because they can not resolve the names. My internal network is all > | dhcp assigned addresses so that I can not hard code. I should not have > > | to any ways. > | > | This is on all of the servers not just one. I am really at a loss and > | its driving me nuts. Going on day 7 of trying to figure this out. It > | has to be something stupid. Something I am over looking. I posted > | something similar a couple of days ago and didn't get one response. I > | have to resolve this. This is the reason my employer didn't want me > | going the Linux route. I talked them into it but I have to have > | resolution ASAP. Please any assistance would be very appreciated. > | > | > | HELP, > | Paul > | > > is a wins server active ? or are name resolutions done by broadcast ? > > - -- > *********************************** > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OpenPGP public key: http://www.amakuru.net/dmorel.asc > 28192ef126bc871757cb7d97f4a44536 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQE+zRauqr7QF98duCMRAqKaAKCXGUTrQoVP9RiXZciZSNofj2IYMgCeL6Uj > o8HOlUGxSGPTNQ6qKBfUd5s= > =ATRo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
