Hi after 2 weeks of struggling I throw in the towel. Any kind soul able to save the day.
I have a samba server, wins support, master domain browser, local master, dns proxy. lmhosts has no effect what so ever resolve order shows this dns (hosts) sort of works ... server:~ # cat /var/lib/samba/browse.dat "WORKGROUP" c0001000 "SERVER" "WORKGROUP" "SERVER" 400d9a03 "Samba 3.0.12-5-SUSE" "WORKGROUP" "EDC-1" 40011003 "" "WORKGROUP" "THUNDER" 40011203 "Thunder Box" "WORKGROUP" "MECH" 40011003 "mech" "WORKGROUP" "MARKTHRIFT" 40011007 "" "WORKGROUP" "CENTRAL2" 40011203 "" "WORKGROUP" This is the wins browse data: server:~ # nmblookup -U server.edc -R "EDC-1" querying EDC-1 on 192.168.17.254 name_query failed to find name EDC-1 this fails to find EDC-1 server:~ # nmblookup -U server.edc -R MECH querying MECH on 192.168.17.254 192.168.17.201 MECH<00> oh this works, even though the previous didn't server:~ # nmblookup -U server.edc -R THUNDER querying THUNDER on 192.168.17.254 192.168.17.200 THUNDER<00> works server:~ # nmblookup -U server.edc -R CENTRAL2 querying CENTRAL2 on 192.168.17.254 name_query failed to find name CENTRAL2 nope server:~ # nmblookup -R CENTRAL2 querying CENTRAL2 on 192.168.17.255 192.168.17.150 CENTRAL2<00> do a broadcast, yep its there! server:~ # nmblookup -U server.edc -R CENTRAL2 querying CENTRAL2 on 192.168.17.254 name_query failed to find name CENTRAL2 OK by now I'm utterly confused: when does the broswer cache work when does samba's lmhosts work how to trouble shoot the unanswered queries! "Using SAMBA", o'reiley, says: this is not difficult with some complexity ... Wow I find no semblance of rational order here. My problem is simple: When a host at the end of a VPN wants to talk to the flexlm on a machine on servers network all goes well until the host says 'I'm george' and the machine says 'hey george' and there is no response. (ie for george read CENTRAL2) Howto resolve 'george' as a netbios name. (yes it's in lmhosts AND dns, and the browser cache, and still the query fails.) Thanks James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
