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I'm trying to see what computer is accessing certain files through
samba, and the SWAT status page is a useful tool for that. Problem is
that for some computers, only the IP address shows, not the NetBIOS
name. This is only a problem with certain computers. Since we're using
DHCP on many computers I don't always know off the top of my head what
computer has any given IP address. We're not using DNS or WINS, just
good old NetBIOS resolution via broadcast or whatever. I think I've
narrowed down the troublemaking computers to 5 or 6 of our 40 computers
and they all have one thing in common - they're XP service pack 2. (Ok
well one of them is a Fedora 4 box not running a samba service, so I'm
not surprised.) I've double checked that the XP boxes are set to
"hybrid" for node type, I've given them static IPs, I've turned on the
messaging service (apparently required in order for them to respond to
certain types of nmb lookups), and nmblookup -A [ip address] does return
the name of the computer from our samba server. What am I doing wrong?
If nmblookup can find the name of the computer based on the IP address,
what is samba doing differently that it can't find the name of these
computers? Thanks in advance for the help!
- [Samba] smbstatus, SWAT, etc. not displaying NetBIOS name for XP ... BJ Quinn
