[cifs-discuss] netbios with Solaris

[Keyur Desai]

On 03/18/09 23:23, Ilya Tatar wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a home network with two windows laptops winA, winB, and an 
> opensolaris box, sol1. I use the sol1 box running cifs server in 
> workgroup mode to share a zfs file system with the windows boxes. All 
> of the computers are connected to a router that has dhcp server 
> running. There is no DNS server on the local network. When I look at 
> router settings I can see IP addresses for all three computers and 
> their hostnames.
>
> Evertything works except name resolution. I can connect to sol1 from 
> the windows laptops by specifying the IP address but not the hostname. 
> That is very inconvinient because the IP address is not static.
> winA to winB communications using hostnames work fine because they 
> fall back to using netbios.
>
> From sol1 I can ping windows laptops using IP addresses but not their 
> hostnames.
> From sol1 I can do "smbutil lookup <winA hostname>". It returns the 
> right IP address
> From sol1 I can do "smbutil status <winA IP>". It returns the 
> workgroup name and server name (winA's hostname)
>
> However when I try to ping sol1 from windows boxes or do "smbutil 
> status <sol1 IP" or "smbutil lookup <sol1 hostname>" it fails.
>
> So seems like sol1 is not responding to netbios requests.
> How can I turn that on?
Is sol1 a SPARC box ? If it is, you may be running into 6810419.

Regards,
Keyur