nmblookup fails

[shoalcreek]

I'm on a network with a mix of Windows and Linux machines. I have a server running Fedora Core 8. It is running BackupPC and can't find other machines on the network. The server needs to be able to run nmblookups successfully for every machine.

I have even added the machines to the server's hosts file. Pings are successful. Nmblookups fail.

I'm getting the impression that I need to do something with the smb.conf file, but am not sure what to do. DNS server is not set up. SELinux is disabled.

 

[IRudebwoy]

Add the following line to your smb.conf

wins server - <ip.of.wins.server>

Now, having said that, Windows networking and the IP networking are two different animals. IP networks use DNS for name to IP resolution. Windows networks use WINS. Windows also uses DNS and actually requires it if you need resources outide the windows environment.

nmblookup (Samba) and nbtstat (Windows) query the WINS server or master browser of your windows/samba network whereas true IP tools (ping, nslookup, dig, host) query the DNS server (and the hosts file).


I hope this helps. Have Fun!

 

[shoalcreek]

I actually fixed the problem with iptables. Thank you.