On Saturday 19 April 2008 16:05:09 Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 15:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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. > > ---- > LAN NAME? what's a LAN NAME? > OK - workgroup name, if you prefer it. > There's a WORKGROUP concept in samba... > > any machine on the subnet should give the same answer with the following > command... > > nmblookup -M WORKGROUP # obviously substitute for the 'WORKGROUP' > whatever name > # you use for workgroup > > This is a live broadcast poll of the subnet and reply should come from > the 'Browse Master' from the most recent 'election' - elections occur > every 15 minutes by design. > > If you are getting different results from the same subnet on different > machines then, as I suggested on the thread on fedora-list, make sure > that all the Linux systems on the LAN set os level = 20 (the default) > except for the one you want to be the master where it's set to os level > = 65 > The laptop I'm working from and the client in question both return exactly the same - nmblookup -M lydgate.lan querying lydgate.lan on 192.168.0.255 192.168.0.30 lydgate.lan<1d> The server has os level = 66 set. The client doesn't have any setting at all for os level so should be working at the default. 192.168.0.30 is the badly behaved client, not the server. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080419/03c5ed82/attachment-0005.sig>