R: broadcasts not working? (samba related)

["David Galligani" <davidgalligani@es.luxottica.com>]

It happened to me , and was a problem with the netmask .
I thought was a problem of nmbd , but It wasn't
If this is not the case , you can try to add an entry to your /etc/hosts or
in your dns server for every
machine ... It's not very clean , however ...

Bye
david

----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Bulback <fred@linuxchips.com>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:45 PM
Subject: broadcasts not working? (samba related)


> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a real stumper (at least for me). I've set Samba up and
> I'm unable to browse anything without specifying the exact IP of what I
> want to browse.
>
> This is supposed to broadcast a message to anything that's listening on
> the subnet:
>
> > nmblookup -B 192.168.255.255 fredhp
> querying fredhp on 192.168.255.255
> name_query failed to find name fredhp
>
> (my mask is 255.255.0.0)
>
> If I use the exact IP, it works:
>
> > nmblookup -B 192.168.1.50 fredhp
> querying fredhp on 192.168.1.50
> 192.168.1.50 fredhp<00>
>
> The version of Samba is 2.2.2, and it's OpenBSD 3.0.
>
> Has anyone encountered this sort of behavior before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred