samba - Dec 2002 - Troubles with Network Neighbourhood

Hi ,
I've some torubles with smb server provided with Debian 3.0 Woody - I
can't see any machine in network neighbourhood, altought all machines
are loging and mapping resources shared by server correctly. What
exactly is needed to be installed with smb - any DNS or something like
this? Maybe the question is not too clever, but when I've had my server
on RH7.2 there was no such troubles - and I'm becoming a little
irritated - because of that I dont know, where is problem. Could you
help me?
Big thanx in advance
    Lukasz

Have you walked throught DIAGNOSIS.txt in the source docs?
Joel

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:10:31PM +0100, #ukasz Maria Mcis3awski OP
wrote:
> Hi ,
> I've some torubles with smb server provided with Debian 3.0 Woody - I
> can't see any machine in network neighbourhood, altought all machines
> are loging and mapping resources shared by server correctly. What
> exactly is needed to be installed with smb - any DNS or something like
> this? Maybe the question is not too clever, but when I've had my server
> on RH7.2 there was no such troubles - and I'm becoming a little
> irritated - because of that I dont know, where is problem. Could you
> help me?
> Big thanx in advance
>     Lukasz
> 
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There is a Recent-FAQs.txt document which discusses this error.
Check your hosts allow and hosts deny parameters, and also think about
erroneous reverse DNS lookups.

You can increase the debugging level of smclient and get more information with
smbclient -d4 -L servername

Joel




On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:09:19PM +0100, #ukasz Maria Mcis3awski OP wrote:
                                                             
> 
> 
> Hi Joel,
> 
> > Have you walked throught DIAGNOSIS.txt in the source docs?
> 
>     Yeah, but only after your mail :) and I've got such results:
> 
> 1 & 2. pings and testparm
>     OK.
> 
> 3. smbclient -L servername
>     warning about alternate permissions, but also:
>     added interface ... - it OK,
>     session request to servername failed (not listening or calling name)
>     session request to *SMBSERVER (same as above)
>     But I can't find what is wrong (smb.conf) is OK.
> 
> 4. nmblookup -B servername __SAMBA__ -- returns IP of server as it should
> 5,6,7,8,9,10 gives positive results (7th test "ex definitio" - as
the machines
> on subnet have access to all resources)
> 
> So, the only trouble is with 3rd test... It suggests that there are
troubles
> with nmbd but I've completly no idea what to do with it (my knowledge
about
> administrating system is not very impressive :)). I'm not running smb
from inetd
> but as a daemon. And situation is strange for when machines arent logging
and
> have no access to server (just simple MSNetwork) they see each other very
nice.
> Aver starting server and allowing domain logon I have to seek machines by
Find
> Computer in Network Neighbourhood.
> Lukasz
>