[CentOS] Another samba problem
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 19 14:46:07 UTC 2008
On Saturday 19 April 2008 14:40:36 Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 13:55 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > My server is CentOS with samba 3.0.25b. One client box runs Mandriva
> > 2007.1 with samba 3.0.24. I can see the client box from the server, but
> > the client box can't see the server. It can see the laptop on the same
> > lan, though.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what I could check? I know Craig said there had
> > been some significant changes in recent versions. Are any of those
> > changes likely to have an impact on this?
>
> ----
> are they on the same subnet?
>
> it almost sounds like firewall rules are in the way.
>
> Always check first from localhost and then from another machine...
>
> from localhost...
>
> smbclient -L localhost
> smbclient -L NETBIOSNAME # which is the hostname unless you set
> something
> # different in smb.conf
>
> then from another computer...
>
> smbclient -L IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM
> smbclient -L NETBIOSNAME
>
> if localhost & IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM work but NETBIOSNAME doesn't work,
> you've got a problem with name resolution.
>
All four requested the user password, then returned a summary of the shares.
The LAN name is correct. The client in question, though, is names as master,
which it shouldn't be.
Anne
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