I am running the diagnostics to figure out why my client machine can't talk
to the samba server, here's what I was able to find out.
I went through the Hour 13 Troubleshooting from the samba.org web site
(http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf) and I got all the way up
to section where you test nmbd, and found the following problem:
[root@server samba]# nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 SERVER
querying SERVER on 192.168.0.255
name_query failed to find SERVER
What is annoying is that the client machine (MIKELAPTOP) is clearly seen in the
broadcast.
[root@server samba]# nmblookup -B 192.168.0.255 MIKELAPTOP
querying MIKELAPTOP on 192.168.0.255
192.168.0.69 MIKELAPTOP<00>
What could cause this? I have an incredibly simple smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = ICI
netbios name = SERVER
server string = Samba Server
log file = /var/log/samb/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
dns proxy = no
[home]
comment = home directories
browseable = no
writeable = yes
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