I've tried to clear out some of the ancillary stuff to keep this readable.
> I am by no means an expert in this area at all, and I am open to looking
> at other options. I know that I had the smb method working a while back
> on a fixed IP address windows machine. The last time I posted on here
> with this issue, albeit with less information, I was asked to make the
> changes to Samba that I indicated above. I don't pretend to always
> understand the ins and outs, just as long as I can get it working J
I'd recommend rsync as a matter of course, which requires that your
network be working, but not all the NetBIOS/SMB stuff that rides on top of
it.
> Does it actually resolve via DNS?
> This is a home network so to be honest, I wouldn't even know how to go
> about testing this. My laptop is associate to a Workgroup and my Linux
> server has a static IP address within the 192.168.15.x range. I can ping
> the laptop by ip address but I am not sure what it's normal address would
> be. For example, would it be laptop1.workgroup.com ?
Probably not. Somewhere on your network you've got a DHCP server that's
giving your laptop an IP address, and there's probably a DNS server that's
either being updated directly by your laptop (Windows does that) or by
your DHCP server.
At any rate, to find out, open a command window on your Windows box and type:
ipconfig
Which should yield a "connection-specific DNS suffix."
Workgroups/WINS is -quite- different, and entirely unrelated.
> After a restart to Samba here's what's in my log:
> [2010/03/18 13:06:58, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:395(become_local_master_stage2)
>
> *****
>
>
>
> Samba name server LINUXPC is now a local master browser for workgroup
> WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.15.2
>
>
>
> *****
>
> [2010/03/18 13:06:58, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:350(find_domain_master_name_query_fail)
>
> find_domain_master_name_query_fail:
>
> Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name WORKGROUP<1b> for the
> workgroup WORKGROUP.
>
> 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.
This is fairly unusual -- it's showing that your samba box is electing to
be the local master browser, yet nmblookup is unable to find it. Usually
when this happens it's because the workgroup name doesn't match, but if
I'm reading the above correctly, both are WORKGROUP, which is the default.
I'd recommend boosting the debuglevel on nmblookup to get more detail on
what's going wrong. (Setting it to 1 should probably suffice.)
> Can you actually browse any windows shares at all?
>
>
>
> I'm not at my Linux box right now, but I'm pretty sure that I can. For
> example, from my laptop I can browse the Samba shares that I setup on the
> Linux box.
>
>
>
>> 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
>
>
>
> Without a local master browser, this is to be expected. It's roughly
>
> equivalent to doing an nslookup without a DNS server.
>
>
>
>
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