[Samba] Samba / Windows workgroup master browser problem

richard
Sat, 12 Apr 2003 04:41:56 -0000

Hi, I think this   might be the clue?
***send_netbios_packet: send_packet() to IP 128.125.255.255 port 137
failed
regards,
Richard Coates.

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 23:46, Rich Pinder wrote:
> I admit theres a LOT about the windows networking I dont understand -
> and even though this may NOT be a SAMBA issue per se, I thought I'd
post
> it here.
>
> Have a 400gb samba server thats been working well (am upgrading to
> current patches today, btw).
> I've got 3 Win2k workstations, on two subnets, that have drives mapped,
> and connect every morning on startup just fine.  All the machines belong
> to one workgroup.
>
> The way I have in the past added machines was to do a 'search' for
the
> computer from the client machine.  After it finds the machine, I log in,
> and make the connection persistent for future logins.
>
> But recently I can't locate the samba server doing this search.
>
> These messages in the samba log file are suspicious - it looks like no
> machine is acting like a local browser for the subnet  (??):
>
> [2003/04/10 04:01:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:send_netbios_packet(171)
>   send_netbios_packet: send_packet() to IP 128.125.255.255 port 137 failed
> [2003/04/10 04:01:08, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name(229)
>   query_name: Failed to send packet trying to query name TEACHERS<1d>
> [2003/04/10 04:02:00, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:sig_hup(92)
>   Got SIGHUP dumping debug info.
> [2003/04/10 04:02:00, 0] nmbd/nmbd_workgroupdb.c:dump_workgroups(292)
>   dump_workgroups()
>    dump workgroup on subnet  128.125.61.148: netmask=    255.255.0.0:
>         TEACHERS(1) current master browser = UNKNOWN
>                 ASDFZXCV 40019a03 (California Teachers Study)
>
> If anyone has a clue on this, I'd apreciate it !  I tried the following
> mods to my conf file, thinking it would force Samba to help out with
> defining the workgroup, but no luck:
>
>
> os level = 34
> local master = yes
> remote announce = 128.125.61.255/SIMPLE 128.125.152.255/SIMPLE
>
>
> Ok..thanks for the help
>
> Rich Pinder
> USC School of Medicine
>
>