Tom Emerson wrote:
- it's already in use -- make sure nmbd is NOT running and try the "netstat -a --tcp" command -- if the system shows it is "listening" on port 137, then "something else" has the port [track that down!] **potentially** this could be inetd/xinetd
vertigo:/home/fx # netstat -a --tcp Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 *:swat *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:www-http *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:x11 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:http-rman *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:telnet *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:ipp *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN But this does not give me the ports that are being "listened to" here's my /etc/services file: profile 136/tcp # PROFILE Naming System profile 136/udp # PROFILE Naming System netbios-ns 137/tcp # NETBIOS Name Service netbios-ns 137/udp # NETBIOS Name Service Can I simply disable these?
- your "nmdb" process is not running "as root" -- ports below 1024 are considered "privileged", which simply means that any process that tries to open such a port MUST be a superuser process -- this can either occur by having "root" explicitly run such a program, or by setting the program to be "suid" and making the owner of the program "root" [suid means set uid -- when started, the process changes from running as the user who initiated it to the "owner" of the file.]
No it is running as root
"WORKGROUP" c0001000 "VERTIGO" "WORKGROUP" "VERTIGO" 40049a23 "Samba 2.2.5" "WORKGROUP" "JULES" 40412003 "" "WORKGROUP" "MART" 40412003 "" "WORKGROUP"
From the looks of it, your computer has "seen" broadcasts from JULES and MART, but not CECILE or SIM. On the windows computer(s), you can check for much the same thing by using the DOS command "nmbstat" [I think -- look for exectuables ending with "stat" in the windows or windows/command directory]
This is simply because all the computers are not switched on all the time. Sim and cecile were switched off at the time. Thanks for your help FX -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux nibz.org