Last time you posted your smb.conf it included the line wins server = <censored>
So, not knowing the ip address of your WINS server I suggested you try nmblookup -R -U ipaddr.of.wins.server mis001 I thought you'd realize for ipaddr.of.wins.server you where supposed to type in the ip address of your WINS server. Today when you posted your smb.conf you've got the line wins server = 192.161.200.1 What happens when you issue the following command? nmblookup -R -U 192.161.200.1 mis001 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:18 AM To: Schaefer Jr, Thomas R. Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Samba] Windows won't recognize hostname of server > Are you sure you don't have another system going by the Netbios name of > MIS001 on your network? Ask your WINS server to resolve MIS001 for you > and see if it returns the correct ip.. > > nmblookup -R -U ipaddr.of.wins.server mis001 Ok, now when I run this command, I get... [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# nmblookup -R -U ipaddr.of.wins.server mis001 querying mis001 on 0.0.0.0 192.163.11.2 mis001<00> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Which is the correct answer. However, I still cannot access the server using the hostname. I have also tried putting my hostname/ip in my lmhosts file on Windows and it still won't recognize the hostname. Again, here is my conf file. [global] workgroup = DFJ netbios name = mis001 server string = MIS Catia Support Server security = SHARE password server = lr-dc01 encrypt passwords = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m read raw = No name resolve order = wins host bcast socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_KEEPALIVE load printers = No lm announce = Yes wins server = 192.161.200.1 kernel oplocks = No ldap ssl = no preload = Yes guest ok = Yes ldap ssl = no Here's one fruitless command.... C:\Documents and Settings\waltersd>net view \\mis001 System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. C:\Documents and Settings\waltersd> After another... C:\Documents and Settings\waltersd>net view \\mis001 System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. C:\Documents and Settings\waltersd> Someone already suggested I upgrade to the latest Samba and I'd like to do that, but since this is a production box and users are continually accessing the shares, I don't want to upset everything by taking down the system for an update. If it starts to look like I've exhausted everything else, I will notify my users and come in over the weekend and upgrade, but I really feel like this should be fixable without needing to upgrade Samba. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
