On Monday April 14 2008 4:43:29 pm Craig White wrote: > There is no known issue with samba on Fedora for this to > occur. > I'm sure that's technically true. But we have two machines here, side by side, one is running Fedora, the other PCLinuxOS off a live CD; one is readily configured in a few minutes to browse my network, the other, Fedora, has me jumping endless hoops...at my age, that's not pretty to watch > I'm sure it's a configuration issue, whether it's 'hosts > allow' setting in smb.conf or network misconfiguration or > firewall setting or ??? > Indeed, I'm sure you're right - but which configuration issue???? > try this... > > nmblookup -M WORKGROUP -d 10 > # nmblookup -M WORKGROUP -d 10 INFO: Current debug levels: all: True/10 tdb: False/0 printdrivers: False/0 lanman: False/0 smb: False/0 rpc_parse: False/0 rpc_srv: False/0 rpc_cli: False/0 passdb: False/0 sam: False/0 auth: False/0 winbind: False/0 vfs: False/0 idmap: False/0 quota: False/0 acls: False/0 locking: False/0 msdfs: False/0 dmapi: False/0 lp_load: refreshing parameters Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf" Processing section "[global]" doing parameter log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log doing parameter ldap ssl = No doing parameter restrict anonymous = no doing parameter domain master = no doing parameter wins support = true doing parameter dns proxy = no doing parameter cups options = raw doing parameter max protocol = NT doing parameter default service = global doing parameter acl compatibility = doing parameter server signing = Auto doing parameter security = share doing parameter preferred master = no doing parameter max log size = 50 doing parameter workgroup = workgroup pm_process() returned Yes lp_servicenumber: couldn't find homes set_server_role: role = ROLE_STANDALONE Attempting to register new charset UCS-2LE Registered charset UCS-2LE Attempting to register new charset UTF-16LE Registered charset UTF-16LE Attempting to register new charset UCS-2BE Registered charset UCS-2BE Attempting to register new charset UTF-16BE Registered charset UTF-16BE Attempting to register new charset UTF8 Registered charset UTF8 Attempting to register new charset UTF-8 Registered charset UTF-8 Attempting to register new charset ASCII Registered charset ASCII Attempting to register new charset 646 Registered charset 646 Attempting to register new charset ISO-8859-1 Registered charset ISO-8859-1 Attempting to register new charset UCS2-HEX Registered charset UCS2-HEX Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE added interface ip=192.168.2.16 bcast=192.168.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 bind succeeded on port 0 socket option SO_KEEPALIVE = 0 socket option SO_REUSEADDR = 1 socket option SO_BROADCAST = 1 Could not test socket option TCP_NODELAY. Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPCNT. Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPIDLE. Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPINTVL. socket option IPTOS_LOWDELAY = 0 socket option IPTOS_THROUGHPUT = 0 socket option SO_SNDBUF = 110592 socket option SO_RCVBUF = 110592 socket option SO_SNDLOWAT = 1 socket option SO_RCVLOWAT = 1 socket option SO_SNDTIMEO = 0 socket option SO_RCVTIMEO = 0 Socket opened. lang_tdb_init: /usr/lib/samba/en_US.UTF-8.msg: No such file or directory querying WORKGROUP on 192.168.2.255 Sending a packet of len 50 to (192.168.2.255) on port 137 read_udp_socket: lastip 192.168.2.101 lastport 137 read: 62 parse_nmb: packet id = 12544 Received a packet of len 62 from (192.168.2.101) port 137 nmb packet from 192.168.2.101(137) header: id=12544 opcode=Query(0) response=Yes header: flags: bcast=No rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=Yes header: rcode=0 qdcount=0 ancount=1 nscount=0 arcount=0 answers: nmb_name=WORKGROUP<1d> rr_type=32 rr_class=1 ttl=300000 answers 0 char `....e hex 6000C0A80265 Got a positive name query response from 192.168.2.101 ( 192.168.2.101 ) 192.168.2.101 WORKGROUP<1d> ****************************** it should be picking up four machines, not one -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA