SAMBA configuration - Machine name

[Mike McCarty]

Andy Green wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>I've read all the help available on SAMBA available from GNOME.
>>
>>I've got an MSDOS (6.0) machine with MSCLIENT over TCP/IP running
>>on it, and a Fedora Core 2 machine, using static IP addresses.
>>Each machine can successfully ping the other. But when I try
>>to establish a share connection from the MSDOS machine to the
>>Linux machine, the MSDOS machine cannot find the Linux machine.
>>
>>JMCCARTY at AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario\tmp
>>[several second pause]
>>Error 53: The computer name specified in the network path cannot
>>be located.
> 
> 
> Not much of a Samba user, but when I stuggled through getting it working
> I found Swat was helpful.  Some things only worked properly when
> windbindd was running, check
> 
> service winbind status

# service winbind status
winbindd is stopped
# service winbind start
Starting Winbind services:                                 [  OK  ]

Ok, that may have been part of the problem. But so far no change.

> Also make sure you poked some holes in your firewall
> 
> iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 137:139 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 445 -j ACCEPT
> 
> If it still didn't work I would fire up tcpdump and look to see if the
> Linux box is broadcasting its existence and name.

Well, did that, and it still won't work. I run tcpdump on my Linux
box (I guess it would receive it's own broadcasts)

# tcpdump
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
14:33:19.813047 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 255
14:33:19.814104 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 273
14:33:19.814377 IP 172.17.205.79.32866 > 
dns1.hstntx.sbcglobal.net.domain:  34300+ PTR? 
250.255.255.239.in-addr.arpa. (46)
14:33:19.815211 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 327
14:33:19.818405 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 319
14:33:19.822840 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 249
14:33:19.823936 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 291
14:33:19.827165 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 323
14:33:19.831890 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 269
14:33:19.833005 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 321
14:33:19.836184 IP router.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: UDP, length 315
14:33:19.893608 IP dns1.hstntx.sbcglobal.net.domain > 
172.17.205.79.32866:  34300 NXDomain 0/1/0 (103)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Linux machine

14:33:19.894420 IP 172.17.205.79.32866 > 
dns1.hstntx.sbcglobal.net.domain:  13696+ PTR? 
201.11.164.151.in-addr.arpa. (45)
14:33:19.950079 IP dns1.hstntx.sbcglobal.net.domain > 
172.17.205.79.32866:  13696* 1/1/1 (123)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Linux machine

14:33:19.950549 IP 172.17.205.79.32866 > 
dns1.hstntx.sbcglobal.net.domain:  8012+ PTR? 
79.205.17.172.in-addr.arpa. (44)
14:33:20.006866 IP dns1.hstntx.sbcglobal.net.domain > 
172.17.205.79.32866:  8012 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (100)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Linux machine

I don't see anything in there that looks like this machine
broadcasting itself.

Mike
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