Mohammed El-Afifi wrote:
I'm using fedora 9, 64-bit edition, on a machine acting as a client. I've
installed samba-client 3.2.0 from a binary package. I amn't running the server
portion of samba(smbd, nmbd, or even winbindd).
I'm trying to access shares on another windows machine, on the same network
192.168.1.0/24. Both machines, the client and the server, are using DHCP to
acquire IP addresses.
When I type the command
smbclient -L <windows host name>
I get an error about bad network name. I traced my smbclient session with tcpdump and wireshark, jut to find out some strange behaviour.
1. smbclient tries DNS requests and receives unresolved host replies. This's totally sane since my DNS works for resolving external names only, not those inside my network.
2. smbclient then tries to resolve the netbios name. It broadcasts a message and
it really receives response from the windows machine resolving the name successfully.
However after smbclient receives the successful netbios response, it sends and ICMP
message to the windows machine indicating "unreachable destination
host(administratively prohibited)".
3. Steps 1 and 2 repeat for a few times(about 3 times), each time
ending with the strange ICMP message.
I can't see what's wrong with my network configuration. I can access the other
windows machine by IP address pretty well. I can access all internet sites
successfully. I've disabled the kernal firewall and selinux, but with no
progress.
I've redhat 9(installed on the same machine having fedora 9) with samba-client
installed(a very old version of course, 2.2 maybe), and it can access the
windows machine seamlessly. So I wonder if it's something related to my samba
version, my fedora 9 OS, or may I be missing something critical in my smb.conf,
taking into consideration that I haven't changed smb.conf from the stock one
shipping with the samba-client binary package?
Appreciating your help for any suggestions!
Perhaps a routing problem? Does either machine have multiple network
cards? If you're not using wireless, make sure that the NetworkManager
service is disabled; I've had nothing but problems with it in F9.
Also, is the ICMP response in regards to Windows trying to make a
connection on ports 139 and 445 at the same time? For some silly reason
Windows will open two connections at the same time. I believe that the
default samba (server) setting is to drop the port 445 requests and use
the port 139 connections.
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