nmblookup problems
Margaret_Doll
Margaret_Doll at brown.edu
Mon Jan 2 19:57:36 UTC 2006
> I moved from RedHat Enterprise 3 on an old server to Enterprise 4 on a
> new server. All the configuration files for samba were transferred.
> The new system is using the same network setup as the old except that
> Redhat 4 comes with Selinux, a new security program.
>
> The samba program version on Enterprise 4 is 3.0.10. The samba
> version on Enterprise 3 is 3.0.9.
>
> The problems are that chemps can be seen in the Network neighborhood
> of the Windows computers on the network, but you cannot log in through
> that icon. You must search for chemps.chem.brown.edu and then log in.
>
> nmblookup -M chemistry
> brings up a random Windows computer on the network
>
> nmblookup -B chemps __SAMBA__
> says that __SAMBA__ is not found
>
> smbclient -L chemps -N
> Domain=[CHEMISTRY] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.10-1.4E.2]
>
> Server Comment
> --------- -------
> CHEMPS chemps - Chemistry Samba Server
>
> Workgroup Master
> --------- -------
> CHEMISTRY
> DLAB GC207-SVR
> ROSEPETRUCK GC244-NTSVR1
>
> where the Workgroup CHEMISTRY will eventually be filled in with
> chemps. The other strange thing about this listing that the
> workgroups included in the listing are workgroups that are not on
> chemps' subnet; they are on 128.148.171.
> The workgroups on chemps' subnet, 128.148.68. are not listed.
>
> I have run without Selinux, but this makes no difference.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Side note that may be related. Mac users used to be able to print to
> printers on chemps. Now the macs have to use the full server name,
> ie. chemps.chem.brown.edu.
The new system has inet6 as well as inet running on it. Does this
cause interference?
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