Cannot see Ubuntu server on Network (Windows)

[MorneDJ]

I got myself two HP Microservers for NAS purposes. Both were the same. I installed Ubuntu server on the one without a glitch, and everything worked from scratch. It is currently doing service as the backup server in my office.

The send one however have been giving trouble since day one. I think I reinstalled Ubuntu probably 7 times on that, everytime to try and sort out something else, most being the RAID system. I currently have it up and running with RAID operational, and I can copy files to it from another PC on the network. But! I need to search for the PC. I have to type in the IP address as it does not resolve the host name. The other server is called "backup-NAS" and situated at 192.168.0.210. The problem server is called "movie-NAS" and is at 192.168.0.211.

I see backup-NAS on the network and can easily connect to it using either the host name or IP address.

I cannot see movie-NAS on the network. I cannot connect to it using the host name, neither can I connect to webmin using https://movie-nas:10000/. I can type in \\192.168.0.211 to connect to it and then I can copy stuff to it and connect to webmin using https://192.168.0.211:10000/

Clearly it is a broadcast thing but I have no idea how to solve this. Any help will really be appreciated. I mainly connect to it via a Windows machine(s).

[albandy]

Open the file /etc/samba/smb.conf:
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

Uncomment the following line (remove the semicolon)
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

save and restart samba
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

[MorneDJ]

Thanks. I uncommented that line, yet, when I tried restarting SAMBA it told me command not found.

> sudo /etc/init.d/samba status
sudo: /etc/init.d/samba: command not found

I did try:

sudo apt-get install samba

It just tells me samba is already the newest version ???

[nothingspecial]

Thread moved to Server Platforms.

[albandy]

sorry,

sudo service smbd restart

[MorneDJ]

Sigh. Still no luck.

[albandy]

Sigh. Still no luck.

Can you upload your samba configuration file?

[newbie-user]

Resolving IP address and hostnames is a DNS thing. Check your DNS server to see that movie-NAS is set up properly in DNS.

[MorneDJ]

I have a small network and never had to use it. Everything used to resolved the host names. I thought that the switch that I use did that automatically.

Here is the smb.conf file. I removed the uncommented stuff:

[global]
	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
	passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
	obey pam restrictions = yes
	map to guest = bad user
	encrypt passwords = true
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
	passdb backend = tdbsam
	dns proxy = no
	server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
	unix password sync = yes
	workgroup = WORKGROUP
;	os level = 20
	syslog = 0
	panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
	usershare allow guests = yes
	max log size = 1000
	pam password change = yes

name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast



[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

 [print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = no

[Storage]
	force user = root
	writeable = yes
	public = yes
	path = /Storage

[albandy]

OK, I think I found the problem:

add in [global] section

netbios name = machine_name

and restart