this is a dns+dhcp issue what you windows is not resolving. your setup is not corrrect.
Im running firestarter on 4 debian servers here, all have also samba running it and windows resolves without any problems. questions about this, email my on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can email you my setup if you want. Louis >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens >Otto Krüse >Verzonden: 2008-12-10 11:27 >Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [email protected] >Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Windows can see Ubuntu netbios names >but not access oreven ping > >Thanks for the feedback. I am wondering indeed then how the local >master browser got wind of it.. > >I find out the cause and solution for the problem as well.. turned >out to be a firewall issue. The system is running Firestarter but also >Shorewall is installed. Now Shorewall is 'only' a utility to update >iptables policies and I hadn't actually run it so I figured my >iptables policy would have remained unchanged. But as it seems the >installation of shorewall already created some iptables policies... I >deleted them and set new policies to accept all (and let firestarter >do the firewalling) and now my windows pc resolves the netbios name of >the server again. Whoa! > >Interesting to note is that name resolving from other linux machines >worked ok, e.g. wasn't affected by the iptables policies. Only windows >machines weren't able to pass through iptables policies for name >resolving. That's nasty I think, seems to me you would not expect this >difference.... > >Regards Otto > > >On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Volker Lendecke ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:21:37PM +0100, Otto Krüse wrote: >>> Here's the funny thing: when my I browse the local network on my >>> windows machine I can see the server (called ubuntuserver1). So >>> somehow my windows pc can resolve the name. But when I try to access >>> it (by double clicking) windows complains it cannot find the name. >>> Also ping ubuntuserver1 does not work. >> >> The fact that "ubuntuserver1" shows up in the list of >> machines in your workgroup does not mean that you can "see" >> it yourself. It means that your local master browser somehow >> got wind of it. >> >> Volker >> >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
