On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > > please note that the Samba Share is on 192.168.0.183. I have no idea who > > 192.168.0.255 is, or why Windows Box (199) is trying to talk to him. The > > Samba Share box (183) doesn't send any packets to Windows Box (199). > > That's a broadcast address. Anyone with IP address 192.168.0.x should > see the packet. > > NBNS is Netbios Name Server or something like that. What I don't know > is does SMB run on top of NBNS?
Problem solved! A google search reveals that, indeed, NMB is used alongside SMB, and you can try it with "nmblookup" on a linux box. I tried that, and voila! it gave me a different IP address ... hmm... Turns out a _different_ windows box on the network had the same name as my Linux Samba box, so it got to the .255 request first. Simple fix: change the name of one of them. Oops! Thanks for the help, all! ~ ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
