SAMBA again

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:06 -0800, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> > I may have missed this on in that jungle called 'the docs', but I see in
> > the samba logs that SAMBA is broadcasting its existence to the net using
> > its netbios name (sto-opq-src), but XP  users need to use the FQD
> > (sto-opq-src.scc.se). Just using the netbios name does not work for
> > them. Sooo, should I be using the FQD as the netbios name? I would not
> > think so, but I have given up on relying on logic in this particular
> > area.
> > 
> > I have stepped back to user level security until (if...) ads security is
> > ever sorted out. That is a different set of problems, but at least they
> > can access something.
> > 
> 
> OK, that sounds more like a name resolution problem.  On the XP clients,
> make sure that they're set to auto-append the appropriate domain suffix
> or they won't figure it out for themselves.  scc.se should be in the
> list of domain suffixes and the auto-append checkbox needs to be on
> (they call it something different, but I'm not remembering at the
> moment).  If you need netbios resolution to work they have to be on the
> same subnet or WINS needs to be working, but I'd try the DNS suffix bit
> first since netbios is evil.

I think this is a WINS type of place. I have been told which machine is
the WINS server, yet, if I let a linux box setup via dhcp, the
resolv.conf file does not contain the WINS server. Until I add it by
hand, I cannot resolve local window machine names. But that is not, I
think, the problem. I would have thought that any WINS entries would
also be in the DNS, but I do not think so.

If the windows users use the SAMBA share's FQD name, they can access it
when I relax authentication.

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Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB