Samba won't dance (more info)

[Claude Jones]

On Tue April 15 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> One thing that is going to affect the machines showing up is the
> different workgroup name. Normally, you will only see machines in
> your own workgroup. There may be other problems, but that is one
> that jumped out at me.
>
> Also, with the newer versions of Samba, if the host name does not
> resolve, you need to include the IP address in the mount command.

I did spot that, and thought I'd fixed it last night. I just did fix it:
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grep -v '#' /etc/samba/smb.conf.original | grep -v ';'
[global]
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        ldap ssl = No
        restrict anonymous = no
        domain master = no
        wins support = true
        dns proxy = no
        cups options = raw
        max protocol = NT
        default service = global
        acl compatibility =
        server signing = Auto
        security = share
        preferred master = no
        max log size = 50
        workgroup = workgroup
[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        browseable = no
        read only = no
[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /usr/spool/samba
        printable = yes
        printer name = HPLaserJet

[cj]
        path = /home/cj
        guest ok = yes
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Also, I re-ran Craig's suggested early-on command and got this, which I post 
because it seems to be saying that its talking to studiopc (192.168.2.101) 
and getting responses - this, the same machine I can't ping:

nmblookup -M WORKGROUP -d 10
INFO: Current debug levels:
  all: True/10
  tdb: False/0
  printdrivers: False/0
  lanman: False/0
  smb: False/0
  rpc_parse: False/0
  rpc_srv: False/0
  rpc_cli: False/0
  passdb: False/0
  sam: False/0
  auth: False/0
  winbind: False/0
  vfs: False/0
  idmap: False/0
  quota: False/0
  acls: False/0
  locking: False/0
  msdfs: False/0
  dmapi: False/0
lp_load: refreshing parameters
Initialising global parameters
params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf"
Processing section "[global]"
doing parameter workgroup = WORKGROUP
doing parameter server string = Samba Server %v
doing parameter printcap name = cups
doing parameter printcap cache time = 60
doing parameter log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
doing parameter max log size = 50
doing parameter map to guest = bad user
doing parameter security = user
doing parameter smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
doing parameter dns proxy = no
doing parameter username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
pm_process() returned Yes
lp_servicenumber: couldn't find homes
set_server_role: role = ROLE_STANDALONE
added interface ip=192.168.2.16 bcast=192.168.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
bind succeeded on port 0
socket option SO_KEEPALIVE = 0
socket option SO_REUSEADDR = 1
socket option SO_BROADCAST = 1
Could not test socket option TCP_NODELAY.
Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPCNT.
Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPIDLE.
Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPINTVL.
socket option IPTOS_LOWDELAY = 0
socket option IPTOS_THROUGHPUT = 0
socket option SO_SNDBUF = 110592
socket option SO_RCVBUF = 110592
socket option SO_SNDLOWAT = 1
socket option SO_RCVLOWAT = 1
socket option SO_SNDTIMEO = 0
socket option SO_RCVTIMEO = 0
Socket opened.
lang_tdb_init: /usr/lib/samba/en_US.UTF-8.msg: No such file or directory
querying WORKGROUP on 192.168.2.255
Sending a packet of len 50 to (192.168.2.255) on port 137
read_udp_socket: lastip 192.168.2.101 lastport 137 read: 62
parse_nmb: packet id = 9576
Received a packet of len 62 from (192.168.2.101) port 137
nmb packet from 192.168.2.101(137) header: id=9576 opcode=Query(0) 
response=Yes
    header: flags: bcast=No rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=Yes
    header: rcode=0 qdcount=0 ancount=1 nscount=0 arcount=0
    answers: nmb_name=WORKGROUP<1d> rr_type=32 rr_class=1 ttl=300000
    answers   0 char `....e   hex 6000C0A80265
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.2.101 ( 192.168.2.101 )
192.168.2.101 WORKGROUP<1d>



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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA