Re: [PLUG] Samba almost working

[Geoff Rivell <grivell@comcast.net>]

On Sunday 16 March 2003 07:58 pm, Molnar, Bradley wrote:
> is samba set up as a WINS server?  Domain Master?  Preferred Master?
>
> Also what version of windows are you running?
>
> Sometimes interactions btwn win98/95/ME with samba when samba is not the
> master of the domain can be funny.  If you are running NT 4.0/2K/XP this
> should not be as much of a problem.  A big thing, if samba is set up as a
> WINS server, all machines should know that it is the WINS server and it
> should be the only one.
>
> One more thing, which program(s) can't see the other machines.  The big one
> to check is smbclient (command line version) can see the windows machine.
> Smb is funny at times and doesn't always broadcast properly, but, can
> browse if you say
>
> smbclient -L //machinename


Also check into nmblookup.

Examples to look into:

nmblookup -M <workgroup_name> -S

Then you can search the categories of workgroups.

nmblookup -M <workgroup_name>#1d (etc)

man nmblookup

Good luck.
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