On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:51, Jason Balicki wrote: > >I'm not using samba as a wins server. It is a client to another WINS > >server to which I do not have access. However, I don't think that the > >database is corrupt as _every_ windows machine is able to resolve the > >address of machine 1 (see original email). Only machine 2 gets the ip > >address of the wrong interface. That's what confuses me. > >Thanks for the idea. > > Hmmm. Let's see what everyone else is saying. Do this (from machine 2): > > arp -a > > and then > > nmblookup "nameofvmwareguest" > > and then > > nmblookup "nameofvmwarehost" > > and then > > half order of kung po chicken > > and then berlioz:/home/jorussel# arp -a bxb2-bb-hsrp.cisco.com (161.44.79.1) at 00:00:0C:07:AC:01 [ether] on eth0 ? (161.44.79.176) at 00:02:8A:36:63:87 [ether] on eth0 ? (161.44.79.220) at 00:0C:29:46:EE:9A [ether] on eth0
berlioz:/home/jorussel# nmblookup jorussel-w2ks <--vmware guest name querying jorussel-w2ks on 161.44.79.255 161.44.79.220 jorussel-w2ks<00> berlioz:/home/jorussel# nmblookup mendelssohn <--vmware host and machine 1 querying mendelssohn on 161.44.79.255 161.44.79.176 mendelssohn<00> <-- this is the CORRECT address. berlioz:/home/jorussel# ping mendelssohn PING mendelssohn (192.168.35.1) 56(84) bytes of data. <-- this is the WRONG address AAGGH!! So what is ping doing? --- mendelssohn ping statistics --- 21 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 20012ms berlioz:/home/jorussel# mmmmm kung po chicken bash: mmmmm: command not found > what should be the current ip of machine 1 and machine 2 and the vmware > guest (machine v?) > machine 1 161.44.79.176 machine 2 161.44.79.31 (not important I think) machine v (guest on machine 1) 161.44.79.220 because the guest is in bridged mode, it gets its own ip address on the network and looks like a normal machine. however, the host communicates with it through a network interface (vmnet8) .... on machine 1: mendelssohn:~> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:8A:36:63:87 inet addr:161.44.79.176 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2845610 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1032601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2076416902 (1980.2 Mb) TX bytes:134805682 (128.5 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 Memory:d0200000-d0200038 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:37006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:37006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:19646754 (18.7 Mb) TX bytes:19646754 (18.7 Mb) vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08 inet addr:192.168.35.1 Bcast:192.168.35.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:835 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) So it is this vmnet8 address that machine 2 is getting. I'm so confused. Thanks a lot for your help. John > and then > > Send me the results, if you would please. :) > > --J(K) -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba