SAMBA configuration - Machine name

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 16 21:48:28 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> 
> You may have to edit the lmhosts file on the MSCLIENT machine, and
> add an entry for the Sambe machine. If you don't have one, you can
> create on. The form on the entries:
> <ip address>	<NETBOIS NAME>

That file exists, but is empty. I added a line, and did

JMCCARTY at AMD586 Q:\NET> net stop
[confirm to log out]
JMCCARTY at AMD586 Q:\NET> net start
[successful login and start]

But it still cannot find that machine. A possibility I have
considered...

When I set up MSCLIENT, I gave the Linux box as the gateway.
Should I have done that?

I said that I can ping, and that's true, but not by name,
BTW. I use the (static) IP addresses.

> The problem could be that the MSCLIENT is not finding the NMB
> server, so it can not get a list of machines on the network.
> This is especially true is you more then just the TCP/IP protocol
> installed. For some reason, MSCLIENT does not do a good job of host
> lookup using TCP/IP, and always seems to fail if you have other
> protocols. This may be because TCP/IP is somewhat of an add-on to
> MSCLIENT.

I don't think I installed NETBEUI or other protocol. I believe
I only installed TCP/IP.

Mike
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