Thnks very much. I had the line in nsswitch.conf, but had never installed winbind.
This solved the problem. wwb -----Original Message----- From: Lukasz Szybalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:53 AM To: Wells Bacon Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Samba] can't resolve NETBios names On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Wells Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My LAN has a single linux/samba server as a PDC/file server, and several > windows workstations. The workstations get their IP addresses from a Linksys > cable router DHCP server. > > I can't get the linux machine to resolve the NETBios names of the windows > machines. > > >From the Linux machine I can see the Internet through the DSL router, I can > ping the windows machines by IP address, but "ping NETBiosname" returns > "Unknown host NETBiosname", and "nmblookup NETBiosname" returns "name_query > failed to find name NETBiosname" > > The windows machies have 192.168.0.99 added as a WINS server in their LAN > configuration, otherwise they are just straight DHCP clients, and they can > see the Linux machine as well as each other by name. > > The PDC is running Suse 10, and Samba 3. > > Linux network config: > > Netgear RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet Card > static IP: 192.168.0.99 > subnet: 255.255.255.0 > hostname: Wizard > domain: BDCO > Name Server 1: 10.231.233.1 > Name Server 2: 12.127.17.71 > Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1 (Linksys router) > > smb.conf: > > # Wizard > # > # BDCO PDC > [global] > add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody > -s > /bin/false %m$ > admin users = @root > browseable = Yes > domain logons = Yes > domain master = Yes > encrypt passwords = Yes > guest ok = no > local master = Yes > logon drive = C: > logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U > logon script = bdconet.cmd > map to guest = Bad User > max protocol = NT > name resolve order = wins bcast lmhosts host > netbios name = WIZARD > os level = 65 > passdb backend = tdbsam > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > preferred master = Yes > restrict anonymous = no > security = user > server signing = Auto > smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd > unix password sync = yes > username map = /etc/samba/smbusers > wins support = yes > workgroup = BDCO > > [netlogon] > path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon > write list = @root > browseable = no > comment = Network Logon Service > > [profiles] > comment = Network Profiles Service > path = /var/lib/samba/profiles > read only = No > store dos attributes = Yes > create mask = 0600 > directory mask = 0700 > browseable = no > > [other shares]... > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > you need to install windbind and add wins to nsswitch.. read this: http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/SambaDomainController#head-8ae23b786749b4d46ef0e9ed22148e63eeab95e7 Lucas -- Vehicle Information Number. Check for Authentic VIN http://lucasmanual.com/vin -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
