On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 15:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 19 April 2008 14:40:36 Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 13:55 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > My server is CentOS with samba 3.0.25b. One client box runs Mandriva > > > 2007.1 with samba 3.0.24. I can see the client box from the server, but > > > the client box can't see the server. It can see the laptop on the same > > > lan, though. > > > > > > Any suggestions as to what I could check? I know Craig said there had > > > been some significant changes in recent versions. Are any of those > > > changes likely to have an impact on this? > > > > ---- > > are they on the same subnet? > > > > it almost sounds like firewall rules are in the way. > > > > Always check first from localhost and then from another machine... > > > > from localhost... > > > > smbclient -L localhost > > smbclient -L NETBIOSNAME # which is the hostname unless you set > > something > > # different in smb.conf > > > > then from another computer... > > > > smbclient -L IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM > > smbclient -L NETBIOSNAME > > > > if localhost & IP_ADDRESS_OF_SYSTEM work but NETBIOSNAME doesn't work, > > you've got a problem with name resolution. > > > All four requested the user password, then returned a summary of the shares. > The LAN name is correct. The client in question, though, is names as master, > which it shouldn't be. ---- LAN NAME? what's a LAN NAME? There's a WORKGROUP concept in samba... any machine on the subnet should give the same answer with the following command... nmblookup -M WORKGROUP # obviously substitute for the 'WORKGROUP' whatever name # you use for workgroup This is a live broadcast poll of the subnet and reply should come from the 'Browse Master' from the most recent 'election' - elections occur every 15 minutes by design. If you are getting different results from the same subnet on different machines then, as I suggested on the thread on fedora-list, make sure that all the Linux systems on the LAN set os level = 20 (the default) except for the one you want to be the master where it's set to os level = 65 Craig _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos