Wow, ok, whatever the problem is, I'm now pretty convinced that it's over my head. I am trying to setup samba as the PDC for our network. I cannot for the life of me get it to work. I went home, tried it on my laptop and it worked in 15 seconds. I came to work, setup the server exactly the same and...nothing. "The domain either does not exist or could not be contacted" blah blah. I've resorted to looking at the details of what's going on with ethereal. I can see no difference in the way the two machines register themselves but the server does not respond to name queries, neither to its netbios name nor the domain name. The laptop does. I am running way short on ideas. I have tried Potato, Woody, Redhat 7.1, 7.3. 7.1 is what's on my laptop. I've tried 2.2.3a-something (6 I think), 2.2.4-2. No difference. I tried duplicating the net setup of the laptop on the server with no luck (hostnames, static ip etc). I just don't get it. IT SHOULD WORK!!!!! Please help!!! Dmitry
[global]
workgroup = VORONOV
netbios name = laptop
server string = Samba Server
hosts allow = 192.168.0.
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
local master = yes
os level = 64
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
dns proxy = no
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
guest ok = no
path = /home/%U
browseable = no
writable = yes
[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /home/netlogon
guest ok = no
writable = yes
browsable = no
[Profiles]
path = /profiles
browseable = no
guest ok = no
writeable = yes
So I guess specifically - for now - the question is, what could cause samba to fail NetBIOS name registration? It doesn't receive any replies so the registration should be successful. But then I try to look it up or ping it, and it doesn't respond. I see the query going out, but nothing coming back in. The thing that is driving me nuts is that my laptop works fine. All settings work the way they should. The same names that fail with the server, succeed with the laptop. They used to be different versions of Linux but now, the only thing that's different as far as networking is concerned is the MAC and that doesn't give me any clues. Thanks, Dmitry -----Original Message----- From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Dmitry Voronov Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:31 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Samba and netbios --- HEEEEELLLP!!! Wow, ok, whatever the problem is, I'm now pretty convinced that it's over my head. I am trying to setup samba as the PDC for our network. I cannot for the life of me get it to work. I went home, tried it on my laptop and it worked in 15 seconds. I came to work, setup the server exactly the same and...nothing. "The domain either does not exist or could not be contacted" blah blah. I've resorted to looking at the details of what's going on with ethereal. I can see no difference in the way the two machines register themselves but the server does not respond to name queries, neither to its netbios name nor the domain name. The laptop does. I am running way short on ideas. I have tried Potato, Woody, Redhat 7.1, 7.3. 7.1 is what's on my laptop. I've tried 2.2.3a-something (6 I think), 2.2.4-2. No difference. I tried duplicating the net setup of the laptop on the server with no luck (hostnames, static ip etc). I just don't get it. IT SHOULD WORK!!!!! Please help!!! Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Hi all, I have the same problem at the cust lan, I took the samba server with me, set it up at home and it worked perfectly at the first time, then took it to the office it also worked, but when its time to take it to customer's office, it refuses to work. the only difference is related to tcp/ip name resoultion but it should not matter. regards, esv. -----Original Message----- From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Dmitry Voronov Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:31 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Samba and netbios --- HEEEEELLLP!!! Wow, ok, whatever the problem is, I'm now pretty convinced that it's over my head. I am trying to setup samba as the PDC for our network. I cannot for the life of me get it to work. I went home, tried it on my laptop and it worked in 15 seconds. I came to work, setup the server exactly the same and...nothing. "The domain either does not exist or could not be contacted" blah blah. I've resorted to looking at the details of what's going on with ethereal. I can see no difference in the way the two machines register themselves but the server does not respond to name queries, neither to its netbios name nor the domain name. The laptop does. I am running way short on ideas. I have tried Potato, Woody, Redhat 7.1, 7.3. 7.1 is what's on my laptop. I've tried 2.2.3a-something (6 I think), 2.2.4-2. No difference. I tried duplicating the net setup of the laptop on the server with no luck (hostnames, static ip etc). I just don't get it. IT SHOULD WORK!!!!! Please help!!! Dmitry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
so, are you telling me windows (netbios) uses standard tcpip DNS queries ? I find that difficult to swallow since there are a bunch of pcs not in the DNS, "visible" on the network neighborhood. thanks, esv --- Dmitry Voronov <dvoronov@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:> Well, it does matter because that's the only way the > other machines know > you're there. They send out a name query for the > domain name and if no > one responds, it's not there. Same with the name of > the machine. My > problem is actually a little different. After > setting up the laptop at > home and bringing it to work, it worked perfectly > fine. I just can't get > any other machine on the network to follow suit. > > Dmitry > > Enrique Sanchez Vela wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > I have the same problem at the cust lan, I took > the > >samba server with me, set it up at home and it > worked > >perfectly at the first time, then took it to the > >office it also worked, but when its time to take it > to > >customer's office, it refuses to work. > > > > the only difference is related to tcp/ip name > >resoultion but it should not matter. > > > >regards, > >esv. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org > >[mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On > >Behalf Of Dmitry Voronov > >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:31 PM > >To: samba@lists.samba.org > >Subject: [Samba] Samba and netbios --- > HEEEEELLLP!!! > > > > > >Wow, ok, whatever the problem is, I'm now pretty > >convinced that it's > >over my > >head. I am trying to setup samba as the PDC for our > >network. I cannot > >for > >the life of me get it to work. I went home, tried > it > >on my laptop and > >it > >worked in 15 seconds. I came to work, setup the > server > >exactly the same > >and...nothing. "The domain either does not exist or > >could not be > >contacted" > >blah blah. I've resorted to looking at the details > of > >what's going on > >with > >ethereal. I can see no difference in the way the > two > >machines register > >themselves but the server does not respond to name > >queries, neither to > >its > >netbios name nor the domain name. The laptop does. > I > >am running way > >short on > >ideas. I have tried Potato, Woody, Redhat 7.1, 7.3. > >7.1 is what's on my > >laptop. I've tried 2.2.3a-something (6 I think), > >2.2.4-2. No > >difference. I > >tried duplicating the net setup of the laptop on > the > >server with no > >luck > >(hostnames, static ip etc). I just don't get it. IT > >SHOULD WORK!!!!! > > > >Please help!!! > >Dmitry > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > >http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > > >__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
Well, now that I have the PDC up and running, I really need some help setting up a very useful share. We have a separate file server which holds the home directories for all users from the workgroup. To make the move to the domain more transparant, it would be nice to make this their homes share so it gets mapped to a nice drive in their My Computer (so much less complaining in my future I see). I have successfully done this with Profiles because I just changed the logon path = \\fileserver\profiles\%u and I assumed in the [homes] share, if I set the path = \\fileserver\homes\%u, the effect would be the same. It doesn't work. Any ideas? Thanks a lot, Dmitry