similar to: IP to NetBIOS resolution

I want to be able to resolve windows machine names to their IP addresses while using Linux. What I'd like to be able to do, from my linux box at the command line is this, ping windows_machine_name Is there any way I can do this?

I have seen many references online to being able to use OCFS2 with Pacemaker, but the documentation I have been able to find is very Sparse. I have kernel 2.6.29, and the latest DLM and Pacemaker (using openais) and OCFS2-Tools from GIT. (As of June 13). I was able to build ocfs2_controld.pcmk ... (With some minor changes to the makefile for my install) I noticed the OCF version of o2cb is not

When I run backup and send the output to a file on the server, I get a file limitation of 2g. When I do the same backup to a snap server, there is no problem. Is there a size limitation for a single file? Thanks, Steven C. Henry stevench@xnet.com

Hi. I've just installed Wine on FreeBSD 4.3-BETA and I keep getting a protocol error, even for the smallest things like --version: bash-2.04$ wine --version Wine release 20010305 Protocol error: process 0x8069000: partial recvmsg 0 for fd Any ideas? Cheers Nik

Hello I saw that samba 2.2.5a is out. Whats the difference with 2.2.4? Is there currently any problem with 2.2.4 or 2.2.5a? I want to uppgrade my server from 2.2.3a so i want to know if there are any thing that i should be prepared for. Ive heard that 2.2.4 had some printing problems? Is this true? /Alexander

Dear Sirs, I'm running a vanilla CentOS 5.3 server, and yum there has Samba 3.0.33. What's the recommended way to install Samba 3.4 as an upgrade over 3.0.33? Just ./configure && make && sudo make install ? Cheers Nik

Hello I have a wounderfull linux/samba server running as pdc for a network. Now to the thing. I would like to add remotedesktop capabilites so that users outside could login to the system and get their desktop up from home or another country.. Is there a way to acomplish this. Do i need a windows terminal server and do i need to configure it so that it is a member of the domain or a bdc,pdc???

Hi all I've a samba server listen on eth0 (everything ok) and eth2 server1 has eth2: 192.168.100.212 <--> 192.168.100.213 (another linux server) with another interface 192.168.30.0/24 from network 192.168.30.0/24 I can ping 192.168.100.212 and works with samba shares (but only using numeric IP) I don't see any computers from windows machines. nbtstat doesn't find any host

Hi, I've been trying to get SSH tunnelling working with Samba. I'm using a Windows XP and a RedHat 8.0 box. I've closely followed the instructions from the HOWTO manual in order to set this up to no avail. I think the problem comes from the fact that my lmhosts file has no effect on the NetBIOS name cache when I preload it with the command 'nbtstat -R'. I checked the

Have a 2003 server located outside of the Domain network over a VPN. The server originally existed inside the network (10.1.1.0/24) but now exists on 10.10.12.0/24. I can access shares over the VPN to the domain controller, but when I try to log in as a domain user it says the domain is unavailable. I added the domain controller as a WINS server on the 2003 server. nbtstat -c on the 2003 does

I'm in the process of setting up Samba 3 on a Fedora core machine with a second machine being an XP machine. I can ping from either machine to the other. The command smbclient -L netbiosname on the linux machine gives me a "Connection to netbiosname failed On the XP machine I've enabled Wins over TCP IP but the command nbtstat -n on the XP machine only lists itself while the

On Win9x I issue the command: nbtstat -a <netbios name> If <netbios name> is a Win9x machine I got the MAC address of that machine on the last line of the command output. If it's a samba server the MAC address is not returned: MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00 Is there anyone who gest the MAC address back from a samba server? -- giulioo@tiscalinet.it

Hi everyone, I'm trying to set up a Windows XP Pro client to connect to a Samba server (version 2.2.8) on a Redhat 8.0 linux box, but have been having trouble for the past 3 days. I have gone through Troubleshooting Samba at [http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/Samba24Hc13.pdf] but I can't figure out how to fix the problem. I suspect that the broadcast address may not be the same on both

Hello all, I've setup samba Version 2.2.0a on Slackware 8.0 # uname -a Linux slackware 2.4.5 #6 Fri Jun 22 01:38:20 PDT 2001 i686 unknown I start samba as root from a console as: /usr/sbin/smbd -D -d10 -l /var/adm/smblogs/log -s /etc/samba/smb.conf /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -d1 -s /etc/samba/smb.conf In smb.conf I have: [files] comment = mystuff valid users = nigels path = /usr1 read

I use Samba 3.14.17 and later test Samba 3.6.9. The computer is WINs server on Samba. wins support = yes All work good. But now I see that NetBIOS clients cannot to re-register their names on WINs, when he change IP. >From WinXP SP3 I do nbtstat -RR Answer: NetBIOS-names registered by this computer were changed. >From server: relay2# nmblookup -U 10.0.0.1 -R -S aiy querying aiy on

Hello, When I install the package Rsafd, I get the following message. > install.packages("Rsafd",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org ",dependecies=TRUE) Warning in install.packages("Rsafd", repos = "http://R-Forge.R-project.org", : argument 'lib' is missing: using '/Users/aajd/Library/R/2.10/library' Warning: unable to access index for

I recently reinstalled Linux on my fileserver (RedHat 7.2), which was running Samba (v 2.2.1a). Now, trying to reconfigure Samba back to its original state (silly me didn't keep a copy of the conf file) I've run into a problem. My win98 machines can't find the Samba server by name, but they can by number. By this I mean: On a Linux desktop, smbclient -L //marvin/ works as

Hi @ all, I have two samba-servers running perfectly! Now I configured a third machine which provides some backups. Since I brought it up in the network the windows client won't execute the netlogon-scripts... When I turn off samba-services on the backup-machine it works again. Did I miss something??? Maybe you can open my eyes... Best regards Sascha Here my conf-files: PDC

Hi, This is a question regarding WINS in Samba 4 I need to add a permanent record to the WINS database in Samba I'm using Samba 4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u1 in Debian 8 According to this document: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/tdb.html There are two files where the WINS records are stored: wins.dat which is re-created upon restart, and wins.tdb which is meant to be the

Believe me, I have tried everytbing I can think of to solve this problem. I will work my tail off to resolve this but I am fresh out of ideas. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Here are the details... problem: server can see machines/shares on clients but clients cannot see machines/shares on server workgroup/domain: golgerth no router server: rpms: kernel 2.4.18.19.8.0