Jan 27, 2013

openSUSE Forums: nmb broadcast address doesn't match my lan addresses

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nmb broadcast address doesn't match my lan addresses
Jan 27th 2013, 21:37

I have a home network that is comprised of several XP machines (DHCP) a win7 machine (DHCP) and an Suse server ver 11.4 with a static IP (192.168.1.48).

I have been struggling off and on for quite a while to get shares to work between windows and linux and finally am starting to get close. I have samba set up followind Swerdna's tutorials
Code:

# Date: 2011-03-01
[global]
 workgroup = kings
 netbios name = fishserver
 name resolve order = bcast hosts lmhosts wins
 server string =""
 passdb backend = tdbsam
 printing = cups
 printcap name = cups
 cups options = raw
 use client driver = Yes
 map to guest = Bad User
 local master = yes
 preferred master = yes
 os level = 65
 usershare allow guests = Yes
 usershare max shares = 100
 usershare onwer only = False
[printers]
 browseable = yes
 path = /var/tmp
 printable = yes
 create mask = 0700
 browseable = no
 guest ok = yes
[linux drive]
 comment = this is a share point
 path = /home/samba
 read only = No

 guest ok = yes

[brother2140]
 path = /var/tmp
 printable = Yes
 guest only = yes

and can see the linux share if I enter the linux machines IP address in the network places window for the windows machines. The linux box is set up with the same workgroup name as the windows machines but never shows up as one of the workgroup machines.

I recently tried some suggested console commands and found that the nmb broadcast address is being issued to 192.168.3.255 even though all ip addresses on my network are using 192.168.1.x addresses. I used the command nmblookup -f AMDHP where the machine AMDHP has an address of 192.168.1.x supplied via DHCP from my router. I think this is why the network neighborhood name of the linux machine is missing. Where is the broadcast address derived and how can I fix it? Any help is appreciated.

FYI - I can access the linux shares via IP address just fine.

Thanks,

Dan

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