| Stephen Gran on 16 May 2005 22:38:04 -0000 |
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On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:34:11PM -0400, jazzman@exdomain.org said: > Hi all, potentially dumb question. > > I installed FC3 on a older box (AMD 500mhz) with the plan of making it a > file server that shares a 20gb drive on my private network. Most of the > machines on my network are XP. > > I configured Samba the same way as my other linux box (RedHat 9) and > everything appears to work when you click on Network Neighborhood, but > attempting to view the shares on the 500mhz (VAULT is the hostname and the > netbiosname) I get resource unavialable errors. I tried a few things and I > noticed that when I try to browse by IP address (by typing \\10.2.2.253) > it works fine, but when I type \\VAULT it just can't resolve the name to > IP. On my Redhat 9 box (FServ) it works just fine. > > So on FServ I type "nmblookup fserv" and get the proper address. The > confusing part is that on vault I type "nmblookup vault" and it can't find > it! How does vault not know his own address?!? > > I've been fighting with this and even tried upgrading to a newer version > of Samba, all with the same results. the necessary ports for samba > (including 445) are open on my private network (All behind a firewall > which blocks just about every port from the outside world). When I do an > nmblookup by IP Address I see VAULT just fine (3 entries for it, actually, > and 2 for my workgroup... is that normal?) and when I try and access > shares by IP address it works fine... when I try to access shares by name > it all just barfs... nothing in the error logs or anything. Vault is > announcing itself to the network, but for some reason it's not announcing > it's IP as well... > > I'm about to just wipe it and install RH9 on it since that actually seems > to WORK on my other box... Any ideas before I try rolling back to RH9? I > really would prefer to use something not so old, but if it works and FC3 > won't, well then it won't upset me much. I suppose I could try a different > distro, but I just don't have the desire to spend all of my time fidgeting > with new versions of this and that after working as a programmer all > day... I just want something that works with a little effort on my part, > but not a herculean effort, if you know what i mean... Doesn't winbind take care of the nsswitch stuff for the samba side of things? Probably that is not running, or is not in /etc/nsswitch.conf -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Misery loves company, but company does | | steve@lobefin.net | not reciprocate. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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