[ale] samba broke

[JD]

nmbd, not nmdb.

If you can't ping the server from the client ... I think you've discovered the
issue. ;)  That's how it works in my simple world ... but Windows name
resolution often surprises me.

On 08/22/2014 12:19 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 08/22/2014 12:02 PM, JD wrote:
>> /etc/hosts on Windows?
>> nmbd had a security issue a few weeks ago. May be been disabled?
> in windows it is c:\windows\drivers\etc\hosts I know that one..
> 
> nmdb?? do I need that running??
> service nmdb start
> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  nmdb.service
> Failed to issue method call: Unit nmdb.service failed to load: No such
> file or directory.
> 
> hmmm
> 
> 
> when I tried the name of the server in windows, the error said DNS was
> not running. when I put in the IP address, it said it couldn't get to
> the server.
>