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I've got Samba 2.2.2 installed and running fine on one of our servers (RS/6000 AIX 4.3.3 and using NT authentication), however, when I do Test #4 (from docs/textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt) it looks like this: npssrv{root}#nmblookup -B npssrv _SAMBA_ querying _SAMBA_ on 173.148.200.113 name_query failed to find name _SAMBA_ The test said I should get back the IP address of our samba server. I got

Folks, I am stumped! I have followed every tech tip I could find and I am still unable to complete my SMB installation. Specifically, I fail Test 4 and Tests 9 and 10. I believe the problem has something to do with the NMBD configuration. Below are the parameters of our system. Any help is greatly appreciated. Brandon Stauber brandon@inetevents.com 310-889-9264 [Please respond

I am running Red Hat 7.3 and samba 2.2.3a I can see the samba server in network neighborhood however when I try to connect I receive the following error: \\Puddles is not accessible A network error has occurred. You might not have access to some network resources my smb.conf file is as follows: [global] workgroup = POND encrypt passwords = yes security = SHARE [homes] guest OK =

Hi All, I am trying to set up samba simply as a standalone Primary Domain Controller, but unfortunatley - for the last three days at least, it just does not want to play! i cannot find a problem in my smb.conf file and to proove that it works, i can log into the samba server via the linux command line with smbclient. The problem is the windows machines, when to go to log into the domain, i get

Hi everyone , Recently upgraded to 2.2.5 on RH73 and suddenly my Roaming profiles did stop working and on top of this my NMBD is giving me constant errors!!!! when i try nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 _SAMBA_ name_query fail to find name _Samba_ then i have tried : nmblookup -B 192.168.123.1 MYSERVER and then : nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 MYSERVER 192.168.123.1 MYSERVER<00> looks fine after this i

I used to be able to browse the windows shares on the network through Nautilus. I can see them as computers, but when I click on them, it fails. (I'm on Ubuntu 6 LTS, AMD64) About 3 months ago, this failed. But, the windows boxes can all still access my shares on my Linux box. I was going through the trouble shooting, and found this out, but I'm not sure what to do next. I am

I am having a lot of problems with nmbd. Basically it refuses to open its socket to listen on. I have checked, and the reason cannot be that the port is in use, as I can set any port with the -p switch, and I get the same error. The relevant part of the nmb log is: Netbios name list:- my_netbios_names[0]="DIRAC" lp_file_list_changed() file /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf ->

Hello, I can not seem to get smbpsswd to add any users to samba. No matter if I use the CLI, the Webmin module or SWAT I always get this response when trying to add any user [root@matrix1 samba]# smbpasswd -m -a gerard Failed initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user gerard$. Failed to modify password entry for user gerard$ I take it this has somehting to do with PAM & or shadow passwords, & I

Howdy! the setup: RH-VALE 6.2.4 running samba2.2.2 cvs from 11/24/2001... user running NT 4.0 SP6a the problem: I have a user that cannot print - She can add the printer but can't print. log for that machine shows the following: ... normal looking connections to obtain drivers - all look OK - no complaints.. .. then this - libsmb/namequery.c:name_query(415) Got a positive name query

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, I have a linux box with the following S/W versions: CentOS release 5.2 (Final) Linux ns.hostname.ro 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 19:32:05 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Version 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 My server has 2 IP interfaces, eth0: with the public ip address and br0: for the private subnet. Br0 being a bridge ip interface between eth1 and tap0 ( for openvpn ). Now my

I have a new SentOS 5 system and have been having problems with Samba. I had been able to access my test share but not my home share. Attempting to re-set thigns as describe by the "webmin configure samba" info resluted in being able to see everything but the home shares. I don't know if I could have copied or written to these other directories - didn't try. Continued

Hello, I have a samba problem which now is keeping me busy for 3 days.. The situation: Samba version: 2.2.5 Samba is configgured that users will be autenticated agains a domain (winnt). With smbpasswd -j <domain> the domain is joined, and the result was a non-error. I use samba for 2 things.. user auth on websites for certain files (see a .htaccess file config later in this mail). This

It's really weird how many times thing break in threes. This time is was my wife's laptop, my router and a phone. Anyway... My network has a router and 2 computers; my F11 box with the samba server on it called steve and my wife's laptop now running Windows 7 called Kellie-PC. My old router was a Linksys WRT54G that I had flashed with DD-WRT. I was using DHCP and DNS masquerading in

Hi all ! I have a PDC and a BDC in 2 differents subnets. I would like to sync their browse list but it doesn't seem to work. Actually here are a part my smb.conf files : PDC ------------------------------ ... remote browse sync = 10.10.20.10 remote announce = 10.10.20.10 security = user encrypt passwords = true domain logons = Yes os level = 70 preferred master = yes domain master = yes

Hello, I am hoping someone can help me.... I am trying to configure my samba...and the problem is the following: When I use nmblookup with -B option and Broadcast address it is impossible to find my samba server (named prova) that is: # nmblookup -B 10.254.14.127 prova querying prova on 10.254.14.127 name_query failed to find name prova If I do the same lookin up to another machine different

I'm debugging my Samba setup using the "Troubleshooting Techniques" from Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours. Everything works fine up until the nmbd section. I am able to do the following correctly: nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 __SAMBA__ nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 POGO (the server) nmblookup -B 192.168.1.255 WIN-CLIENT (the client) but when I do nmblookup -B 192.168.1.255

Hi, While going through DIAGNOSIS.txt on my samba 2.2.2 server, I came across the following test results: Test 5: [root@NetServer samba]# nmblookup -B resaddr8.research.bio2.edu '*' querying * on 209.64.53.8 name_query failed to find name * This appears to be a partial failure? Test 6: Initially, I got: [root@NetServer samba]# nmblookup -d 2 '*' added interface

Hi, I was running samba-4.1.4 successfully on my fedora till the below issue occurs. I had put some simple DEBUG statements in "lib/util/debug.c" (reopen_logs_internal() and some other funcs) file to understand the logging mechanism. And the same is compiled fine without any issues. And I started my samba service(both nmbd and smbd), I got "(core dumped) segmentation fault"

Hi, I've asked this question some days ago but nobody answered me. Now I ask again. If it's a Problem with the 'data' included please tell me. I'll try to configure browsing on W2k and ME Clients. But every time I'll get a No such Workgroup error. All clients are in the same Workgroup (no cross Subnets) Samba is configured as local master browser and a guest user is set