Hi,
I've run through quite a few threads about pinging windows names from a Ubuntu/Linux box, but I'm still unable to ping Windows machines on a different subnet by their short netbios name.
I can ping Windows machines on my own subnet by their netbios name and machines on another subnet by their full domain name, i.e machine.domain.local
I've got the following in place:
running: winbind
Within /etc/nsswitch.conf :
hosts: files mdns4_minimal wins dns mdns4
Within /etc/samba/smb.conf :
#======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]
## Browsing/Identification ###
# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = ubuntuworkgroup
netbios name = ubuntu
# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
wins support = yes
# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
#wins server = 192.168.110.2
# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
# to IP addresses
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast dns
#### Networking ####
# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
# This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
# interface names are normally preferred
; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0
Not sure if I really need to be messing with the smb.conf as I'm not running as a Windows share?
Thanks in advance for any help.
John
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