[CentOS] Another samba problem

Sat Apr 19 15:39:37 UTC 2008
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 16:24 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.
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lydgate.lan - is that the name of your workgroup?

That seems to be a hostname too which I think is part of the confusion

Craig