for better or worse, i want to put together an incredibly beginner-level presentation on samba on suse 11, so it behooves me to actually figure out what i'm talking about. as a starting point, i wanted to start with sles 11 and do *nothing* more than start smb and nmb, using the stock smb.conf settings that come with it (since, as i read it, that default smb.conf has what appear to be reasonable settings that one can start playing with.) so, starting there, i wanted to do nothing more than show "nmblookup" querying the system itself. that stock smb.conf does not set a netbios name but, AIUI, if one does not set a netbios name, the hostname is used by default. the default hostname for this install is "sles11" so i just, on the sles 11 system itself, ran: # nmblookup sles11 querying sles11 on 192.168.1.255 name_query failed to find name sles11 # huh. given how i understand netbios name resolution to work, shouldn't that have found that server? if i use the actual IP address of myself, it works: # nmblookup -A 192.168.1.231 Looking up status of 192.168.1.231 SLES11 <00> - B <ACTIVE> SLES11 <03> - B <ACTIVE> SLES11 <20> - B <ACTIVE> ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> WORKGROUP <1d> - B <ACTIVE> WORKGROUP <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> WORKGROUP <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00 # so ... what am i misunderstanding here? obviously, using the IP address works fine. so should i not be allowed to make the same query by the hostname/netbios name? just to be clear, this is the *only* samba-enabled system on the local network, and there is no WINS server. so what have i screwed up? rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org