I did it, I broke the cardinal rule "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", and I made a configuration change to Samba. It was in the area of preferred master/local master/domain master, and I did it as a recommended change while setting up DNS. Now, when I try to map Win98 shares on my RH7.2 Linbox I get ... 6278: session request to MONSTA failed (Called name not present) 6278: session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present) SMB connection failed I've tried various rebootings, but to no avail. The mapping was set up in fstab and hasn't been changed. The Win98 shares are visible and accessible on other WIn98 boxes on the LAN (I don't have another Linbox yet to try that test). Linux shares still map into Win98 OK. Could somebody give me a pointer here, please? Julian. ===================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ... Julian Opificius. ICQ 3268206. ----------------------------------------------------------------
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius wrote:> Now, when I try to map Win98 shares on my RH7.2 Linbox I get ... > > 6278: session request to MONSTA failed (Called name not present) > 6278: session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present) > SMB connection failedYour win98 does not like the netbios name "MONSTA" (and no win9x likes being called *SMBSERVER). Fix the netbios name used in the mount (in fstab) to be the one win98 calls itself. If you have been changing the DNS around I guess it is possible that the client can't look up the IP of the server.> Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ...Behind you! /Urban
Urban, At 01:02 AM 1/6/02 +0100, you wrote:>On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius wrote: > > > Now, when I try to map Win98 shares on my RH7.2 Linbox I get ... > > > > 6278: session request to MONSTA failed (Called name not present) > > 6278: session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present) > > SMB connection failed > >Your win98 does not like the netbios name "MONSTA" (and no win9x likes >being called *SMBSERVER).It's always been called monsta. I've no idea where *SMBSERVER comes from. Sure ain't my doing! (Samba is not case sensitive by default, is?)>Fix the netbios name used in the mount (in fstab) to be the one win98 >calls itself. If you have been changing the DNS around I guess it is >possible that the client can't look up the IP of the server.Linbox can get the IP of monsta - at least with a ping, but Samba uses Netbios names, doesn't it? I wonder if there's a problem there ... fstab is correct, always has been. Linbox can't sees any of my other winboxen either - same problem - and they don't have entries in fstab, so it isn't that. Now I notice on bootup that somebody modfied fstab - added things like guest,noauto, and stuff, but it didn't change the name. Must be something to do with Netbios, I guess. Thanks for the clues ! julian. =======================> > Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ... > >Behind you! > >/Urban---------------------------------------------------------------- Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ... Julian Opificius. ICQ 3268206. ----------------------------------------------------------------