Re: Samba configuration and name resolution?

From: Antoine EMERIT (gnagnagna_at_incredebilous.blackhole)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:35:11 +0000

Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@hotmail.com.nospam> écrivait news:cufegh$h79$1
@ikaria.belnet.be:
> machine. Using the IP adres, everything is just fine. So, I guess this
> has something to do with name resolution?

Samba comes with two services :

- smbd to share resources (files, printers, ...)
- nmbd to share netbios name

nmblookup is a command line used to search netbios names on the network.
Use is to check the nmb resolution.

Netbios name list may be collected throw many way :

- broadcast, with an auto-elected local master browser
- WINS server, if you set the WINS server on each station (eg: throw
dhcp)

And there is also the DNS resolution that may follow an unmatched netbios
lookup (if the station are seted with "netbios resolution over tcpip"
(network panel on windows). In that case the dhcp server may fills the
DNS server using the DDNS (Dynamic DNS) protocol.

So first, check if :

- nmbd is running, and look at the nmbd logs
- port 135-139 are opened (UDP and/or tcp)
- use nmblookup to search the local browser

Regards

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