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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