<div dir="ltr">With my samba set up, I always start nmd smd on the server. Most servers you can start with nmb, might want to check /etc/init.d to see if it still there.. <div><br></div><div><div>magi:~ # ps ax | grep nmb</div>
<div> 4172 ? Ss 0:44 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf</div><div> 4173 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf</div><div>27583 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto nmb</div><div>magi:~ # ps ax | grep smb</div>
<div> 4144 ? Ss 0:06 /usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf</div><div> 4145 ? S 0:02 /usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf</div><div> 4172 ? Ss 0:44 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf</div>
<div> 4173 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf</div><div>27587 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto smb</div><div>28334 ? S 3:39 /usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf</div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>On the server in question, have you check to make sure samba working correctly? Try this to see what you get, need to be ran on the linux server </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><pre>
smbclient -L <host> -U <user> </pre></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><pre>You should get something back like this </pre></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><pre>
smbclient -L magi -U cepayne
Enter cepayne's password:
Domain=[MAGIDESIGN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.12-59.23.1-3256-SUSE-SL12.3-x86_64]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
users Disk All users
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
http Disk Web Files
data6 Disk Files
data2 Disk Movie and more
data3 Disk Audio Files Vol 1
data4 Disk Movies Files Vol 3
data5 Disk Movies files Vol 4
data1 Disk Misc. Crap
data7 Disk Stuff
vhosts Disk Virt Host
movies Disk movies
backup_movies Disk Backup of Movies
music Disk music
vhosts2 Disk vhost volume 2
tv_shows Disk TV Shows
netlogon Disk Network Logon Service
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (magi server (Samba, SuSE))
cepayne Disk Home Directories
Domain=[MAGIDESIGN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.12-59.23.1-3256-SUSE-SL12.3-x86_64]
Server Comment
--------- -------
INFERNO inferno server
MAGI magi server (Samba, SuSE)
NECROMANTEION <a href="http://necromanteion.magidesign.com">necromanteion.magidesign.com</a>
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
MAGIDESIGN MAGI
MYGROUP NAS-SGD
WORKGROUP MACMINI-B0319C
</pre></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium">Are you using Samba is PDC? I know with Windows 7 you have to patch the register to get to log on. What happens from your 8.1 box when you open explorer and do \\someip to see if you can see the share?</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html</a><br>
</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:27 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">nmbd, not nmdb.<br>
<br>
If you can't ping the server from the client ... I think you've discovered the<br>
issue. ;) That's how it works in my simple world ... but Windows name<br>
resolution often surprises me.<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
On 08/22/2014 12:19 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:<br>
> On 08/22/2014 12:02 PM, JD wrote:<br>
>> /etc/hosts on Windows?<br>
>> nmbd had a security issue a few weeks ago. May be been disabled?<br>
> in windows it is c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts I know that one..<br>
><br>
> nmdb?? do I need that running??<br>
> service nmdb start<br>
> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start nmdb.service<br>
> Failed to issue method call: Unit nmdb.service failed to load: No such<br>
> file or directory.<br>
><br>
> hmmm<br>
><br>
><br>
> when I tried the name of the server in windows, the error said DNS was<br>
> not running. when I put in the IP address, it said it couldn't get to<br>
> the server.<br>
><br>
<br>
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