I posted this to a Linux forum but also wanted to post it
here since this is also relates to backuppc. I did post something a while back
and some mentioned about modifying Samba so that it became a local master.
Anyway, I made the changes to my smb.conf file with the following:
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
wins support = yes
That said, I still cannot seem to perform a nmblookup on a windows
laptop that is connected to my network that has a dynamic IP address L
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I have just noticed something in my syslog, which I believe
is related to a change in my Samba setup. I am using Backuppc to perform
backups on my linux server and I was (and still am) having a problem in that I
wasn't able to back up any machine that had a dynamic IP address, namely my
laptop. It seems that nmblookup will not resolve the ip address from any
machines on my network. Really not sure what the problem is since I have
very little experience with this. Also, I don't remember what change I
made to the samba configuration (I had a look but nothing jumped out) other
than it had to do with enforcing Samba to act as a Domain Master if that makes
sense.
The errors I am getting in my syslog are as follows:
nmbd[4123]:
find_domain_master_name_query_fail:
nmbd[4123]:
Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name XXXXXX<1b> for the
workgroup XXXXX.
nmbd[4123]:
Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup.
I'd
really appreciate any help that would allow me to be able to use nmblookup
(which is what backuppc uses to resolve client names to an IP address) and work
out just what I did to samba.
If
I try and do a nmblookup for a client I get the following error message:
nmblookup
laptop1
querying
laptop1 on 192.168.15.255
name_query
failed to find name laptop1
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