[KLUG Members] Dancing with Samba and Old Gals

[Mark Jones]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:47 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:39 -0500, Mark Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:45 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > But you can ping by IP?  Does Windows 9x have the nbtstat command (I
> > > don't remember anymore if that was a new-with-NT thing)?
<rearranged>
> Do any of the names above refer to your Samba host?  Or is 15.108 your
> Samba box?
.108 is the Win98 box.  The Samba box is .101 and I get the following
error when trying nbtstat
	C:\WINDOWS>nbtstat -a 192.168.15.101

	host not found
	C:\WINDOWS>
I tried nbtstat from a winxp (.104) box and got 
	"failed to access NetBT driver -- NetBT may not be loaded"

Nbtstat -a murgen gives the same as below.  Nbtstat -a charm gives the
same error as .101

questions below...

> > On the Win98 Machine (murgen)
> > C:\WINDOWS>nbtstat -a 192.168.15.108
> >        NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table
> >    Name               Type         Status
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > MURGEN         <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
> > RIVERWHY       <00>  GROUP       Registered
> > MURGEN         <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
> > MURGEN         <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
> > MAJONES        <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
> > RIVERWHY       <1E>  GROUP       Registered
> > RIVERWHY       <1D>  UNIQUE      Registered
> > ..__MSBROWSE__.<01>  GROUP       Registered
> > MAC Address = 00-0C-41-E6-AD-35
> 
> 00 is the Workstation service
> 03 is the Messenger service
> 20 is the File Server service
> 1E is the Election service
> 1D is the Master Browser
> 01 is the Messenger Service for type U and the Master Browser for type G
> 
Ok.  I think I'm getting most of this.  Riverwhy is the local workgroup
name.   Does <1D> point to a machine or to the workgroup?  There is no
machine named riverwhy.  The samba server is named "charm".

PS.  re:names  The names make sense to us.  They come from several
favorite books.

> Notice how dreadfully complicated that is,  it is amazing these M$
> technologies work at all.
Only natural laws are uncomplicated.  All human tech tends toward
complexity.  That's one of the ways scientists know when they've
discovered fundamental principles instead of human causation.

Mark