For some reason all of my Linux servers all of a sudden can't look up net bios names. Everything has been working great for months. If I do an smbclient -L ipaddress on any of them they all can see the master browser and show its name in the output. But if I try and do an smbclient -L systemname it immediately dumps out to the internet and tries to resolve the name using DNS. This of course does not work. I have many scripts that rely on mount -t smbfs that no longer work because they can not resolve the names. My internal network is all dhcp assigned addresses so that I can not hard code. I should not have to any ways. This is on all of the servers not just one. I am really at a loss and its driving me nuts. Going on day 7 of trying to figure this out. It has to be something stupid. Something I am over looking. I posted something similar a couple of days ago and didn't get one response. I have to resolve this. This is the reason my employer didn't want me going the Linux route. I talked them into it but I have to have resolution ASAP. Please any assistance would be very appreciated. HELP, Paul
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Kraus wrote: | For some reason all of my Linux servers all of a sudden can't look up | net bios names. | Everything has been working great for months. | | If I do an smbclient -L ipaddress on any of them they all can see the | master browser and show its name in the output. | | But if I try and do an smbclient -L systemname it immediately dumps out | to the internet and tries to resolve the name using DNS. | | This of course does not work. | | I have many scripts that rely on mount -t smbfs that no longer work | because they can not resolve the names. My internal network is all dhcp | assigned addresses so that I can not hard code. I should not have to any | ways. | | This is on all of the servers not just one. I am really at a loss and | its driving me nuts. Going on day 7 of trying to figure this out. It has | to be something stupid. Something I am over looking. I posted something | similar a couple of days ago and didn't get one response. I have to | resolve this. This is the reason my employer didn't want me going the | Linux route. I talked them into it but I have to have resolution ASAP. | Please any assistance would be very appreciated. | | | HELP, | Paul | is a wins server active ? or are name resolutions done by broadcast ? - -- *********************************** david.morel@amakuru.net OpenPGP public key: http://www.amakuru.net/dmorel.asc 28192ef126bc871757cb7d97f4a44536 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+zRauqr7QF98duCMRAqKaAKCXGUTrQoVP9RiXZciZSNofj2IYMgCeL6Uj o8HOlUGxSGPTNQ6qKBfUd5s=ATRo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----