samba - Dec 2001 - WINS resolution with Samba 2.2.2

I'm a newbie to this list and a newbie to Samba.  I've read some info on
the
web and I'm trying to successfully set up Samba 2.2.2 on Debian 2.2r3.
Anyway, I've installed it just fine, it shows up on my NT4 domain just fine,
I can ping it (using WINS) and can even access a share on it.  However, I
cannot ping any computer on our LAN from the Linux box.  I've modified the
resolve order in smb.conf so that wins is listed first, followed by hosts,
lmhosts, bcast.  I've change the security mode from user to server and have
the correct domain down.  I basically followed the NT domain instructions
from this page:

http://handsonhowto.com/smb101.html <http://handsonhowto.com/smb101.html> 

So, any tips would be greatly appreciated.  Also, if anyone is in the same
situation as me (NT 4 Domain, Samba 2.2.2 on Linux) please feel free to send
me your smb.conf files.

Thanks a lot,
Allen
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I don't believe samba gets involved in pinging.
Are you pinging names or ip's?
If ip's work, then this is a name resolution issue on the linux box.
Is there a DNS on your network? If there is, add that to your /etc/resolv.conf
file.
Do you have the other hosts on your network in /etc/hosts?
Have you configured /etc/host.conf?

Joel
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:26:21PM -0500, Allen Crawford
wrote:
> I'm a newbie to this list and a newbie to Samba.  I've read some
info on the
> web and I'm trying to successfully set up Samba 2.2.2 on Debian 2.2r3.
> Anyway, I've installed it just fine, it shows up on my NT4 domain just
fine,
> I can ping it (using WINS) and can even access a share on it.  However, I
> cannot ping any computer on our LAN from the Linux box.  I've modified
the
> resolve order in smb.conf so that wins is listed first, followed by hosts,
> lmhosts, bcast.  I've change the security mode from user to server and
have
> the correct domain down.  I basically followed the NT domain instructions
> from this page:
> 
> http://handsonhowto.com/smb101.html
<http://handsonhowto.com/smb101.html>
> 
> So, any tips would be greatly appreciated.  Also, if anyone is in the same
> situation as me (NT 4 Domain, Samba 2.2.2 on Linux) please feel free to
send
> me your smb.conf files.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Allen

Ok, well then maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.  I assumed that WINS
entries were setup in smb.conf since they have entries for it already in
there.  This is just a resolving issue.  I can ping IPs just fine, just not
hostnames.  I could of course add all the hosts to the hosts file, but I'm
hoping to avoid that.  We do not have DNS on our network, just WINS.  Is it
possible to set it up to handle WINS instead of DNS?  I don't even have an
/etc/resolv.conf file on this system.  I checked another one and we do, but
that one is set up externally as our FTP server.  Can you list WINS servers
in this file?

Finally, I checked out the /etc/host.conf file and it is:

order hosts,bind
multi on

While I'm at it, what does "multi on" do?  Or "bind" for
that matter.
Doesn't bind have to do with DNS?

Thanks for the help, sorry if it isn't Samba related.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel@HammersHome.com] 
Sent:	Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:49 PM
To:	Allen Crawford; samba@lists.samba.org
Subject:	Re: WINS resolution with Samba 2.2.2

I don't believe samba gets involved in pinging.
Are you pinging names or ip's?
If ip's work, then this is a name resolution issue on the linux box.
Is there a DNS on your network? If there is, add that to your
/etc/resolv.conf
file.
Do you have the other hosts on your network in /etc/hosts?
Have you configured /etc/host.conf?

Joel
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:26:21PM -0500, Allen Crawford
wrote:
> I'm a newbie to this list and a newbie to Samba.  I've read some
info on
the
> web and I'm trying to successfully set up Samba 2.2.2 on Debian 2.2r3.
> Anyway, I've installed it just fine, it shows up on my NT4 domain just
fine,
> I can ping it (using WINS) and can even access a share on it.  However, I
> cannot ping any computer on our LAN from the Linux box.  I've modified
the
> resolve order in smb.conf so that wins is listed first, followed by hosts,
> lmhosts, bcast.  I've change the security mode from user to server and
have
> the correct domain down.  I basically followed the NT domain instructions
> from this page:
> 
> http://handsonhowto.com/smb101.html
<http://handsonhowto.com/smb101.html>
> 
> So, any tips would be greatly appreciated.  Also, if anyone is in the same
> situation as me (NT 4 Domain, Samba 2.2.2 on Linux) please feel free to
send
> me your smb.conf files.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Allen
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