[lug] SAMBA

[Jeff Schroeder]

Greg wrote:

> Here is a bit more information.
>
> The Samba Server does not show up on the Network Neighborhood of any
> of the Window boxes. Further, when running
> 	smbclient -L servername
>
> I get the following output:
> 	added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0 session request to YMA failed (Not listening for
> calling name) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for
> calling name)

One good place to look are the Samba log files.  Depending on your 
setup, they might be in /etc/samba/logs or /var/logs/samba... look for 
log.smbd and log.nmbd.  If you can't find them, check if your smb.conf 
file contains a "log file = xxx" line.

If those aren't helpful, try bumping up the logging-- set "log level = 
3" or higher in your smb.conf and restart Samba.  Maybe that'll give 
you more helpful error messages.

Finally, I did a quick Google search for your error message (there are a 
lot of matching results) and it seems this might be related to name 
resolution issues.  You might check if/how your error messages change 
when you use 'smbclient -L localhost' versus 'smbclient -L 1.2.3.4' or 
whatever.

HTH,
Jeff