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Old 09-23-2003, 02:34 PM   #1
sclebo05
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Slackware Samba DNS issue


i have samba running on a network, and i have several machines playing nicely (a mixture of windows and linux). the problems are 2 slackware boxes. they can't access the samba shares of other machines. other machines can do a smbclient -N -L //machine but the slack boxes can't find it on the network, then fails with a timeout after apparently searching the internet and coming up with a DNS there.

all machines are on the same hub.

both machines can be seen from any other box, they use from what i can tell identical smb.conf files with the working linux boxes.

on a whim i ran netconfig, and chose to have no nameserver. i rebooted and i was surfing samba on my network like a fiend. but no internet sites were available. this is probably because for internet my router just relays to the nameserver for my internet connection.

i ran netconfig again, and chose a nameserver (my router, as i do on all my other machines). once again i have internet, but no samba on my lan. what the hell is going on? why does the samba client try to find //machinename on the internet? i want it to search the lan first.
 
Old 10-20-2003, 01:53 PM   #2
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fixed it - commented out the 'search domainname' of resolve.conf
 
  


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