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mark_lagace
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Nov 2002
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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 Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 3:19 am Post subject: Mounting samba shares - how do I get netbios name resolutio |
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I have a couple of systems, one running WinXP, another running Gentoo (obviously). The windows machine is called "VLADIMIR", and my wife's windows XP machine can see it fine in the network neighborhood, and can access the shared folders without any trouble.
When I attempt to mount a shared directory (named 'heidi') with the command:
mount -t smbfs //vladimir/heidi /mnt/samba
it fails rather miserably.
I decided to look into it a bit more with the smbclient command. Take a look at this:
| Code: | grandpoobah root # smbclient //vladimir/heidi
added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
timeout connecting to 80.14.47.204:139
Error connecting to 80.14.47.204 (Operation already in progress)
Connection to vladimir failed
grandpoobah root #
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Hmm, rather odd? It seems to be trying to connect to 80.14.47.204. So I tried the next command, using the current lan ip address of my windows box:
| Code: | grandpoobah root # smbclient //192.168.0.15/heidi
added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
session request to 192.168.0.15 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
Password:
Domain=[LOKIHOME] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
smb: \> dir
. D 0 Fri Nov 15 11:10:04 2002
.. D 0 Fri Nov 15 11:10:04 2002
Data D 0 Sun Sep 15 12:48:05 2002
Games D 0 Sun Sep 15 12:56:18 2002
Heidi computer drivers D 0 Fri Nov 1 23:44:14 2002
linux D 0 Sat Nov 23 20:05:38 2002
Temp D 0 Thu Oct 3 21:21:41 2002
unsafediscv1.5.5 D 0 Tue Oct 22 10:40:15 2002
unsafediscv1.5.5.zip A 13013 Sun Oct 20 21:38:06 2002
56666 blocks of size 262144. 42647 blocks available
smb: \>
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Bingo! It works. Why? How do I get samba to properly resolve the 'Windows' name of my computer so I don't have to type in the IP address each time (since I've got the IP assigned by DHCP and theoretically it could change).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mark. |
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WarMachine
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| Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| I made my XP machines' IP's and names as entries in hosts before I tried this. According to a post on another thread, I thought it was required. Whether or not, it worked (and has) correctly since. |
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mark_lagace
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Nov 2002
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| Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 7:24 pm Post subject: Added to /etc/hosts |
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I've editted my DHPCd config to assign static IPs to my two windows machines, and added their entries into the /etc/hosts file and that does work.
That being said, there should be a way for smbmount (or mount -t smbfs) to look for a particular computer's name on the network. I keep thinking it might have something to do with setting the 'workgroup', but I don't know where that is defined on my linux system (other than in smb.conf, but that seems to be more related to sharing folders etc on my linux machine so that my windows machines can see them, rather than the other way around). |
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mark_lagace
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Nov 2002
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 7:32 pm Post subject: hmmm |
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I think I've found out part of my problem. I use dyndns.org to have a dns name for my computer. When I attempt to mount a file share with samba, rather than assuming the computer name I give it is a netbios name, it translates that into (computername).dyndns.org and attempts to contact that computer to mount file shares.
Any ideas how I can get this to change? |
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