[Dnsmasq-discuss] Problems with Samba shares and XP clients

Jorge Bastos mysql.jorge at decimal.pt
Fri Aug 1 19:37:47 BST 2008


Hum, do you have dns proxy = on or off in smb.conf ?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: dnsmasq-discuss-bounces at lists.thekelleys.org.uk [mailto:dnsmasq-
> discuss-bounces at lists.thekelleys.org.uk] On Behalf Of Cristiano Paris
> Sent: quinta-feira, 31 de Julho de 2008 9:47
> To: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
> Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Problems with Samba shares and XP clients
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently discovered dnsmasq after years of pain with dhcpd and bind
> in my local network at home. Yesterday I was able to setup dhcp+dns in
> less than 10 minutes: doing the same with dhcpd+bind would have
> required me at least two hours :D
> 
> Anyway, I'm here for a problem. After setting up dhcp, my Windows XP
> client (my wife's notebook) won't connect to Samba shares on the same
> server anymore.
> 
> Here's a description of my configuration and what's going on:
> 
> 1 - dnsmasq runs in the same server as Samba does.
> 2 - Manually setting up the network in my XP client makes everything
> work fine.
> 3 - Doing a restore on the NIC, now configured to use dhcp, will
> prompt an alert saying that "NetBT could not be deleted" (or something
> like that: I'm translating from Italian). From that time on, XP client
> refuses to connect to the Samba share saying that the network is
> unreachable. I tried "net use" from command line and it reported a
> 1231 error.
> 4 - I tried IP, short name and FQDN name in share location URL:
> dnsmasq gets queried by the XP client but the error is the same.
> 5 - I'm using the following dhcp options in dnsmasq:
> 
> dhcp-option=44,192.168.20.1
> dhcp-option=45,192.168.20.1
> dhcp-option=46,8
> dhcp-option=47
> 
> Using these options causes 192.168.20.1 to be set as the WINS server
> in the client. Consequently, I enabled WINS support in Samba through
> the option "wins support = yes". Nothing changed.
> 6 - In my first tests, I was working without the above options: that
> way, NetBIOS over TCP/IP gets disabled and I had to tweak the XP's
> registry to re-enable it again. Nevertheless, it didn't work.
> 7 - As I said, I'm able to go back in the manual configuration set up
> and have everything work again.
> 
> Any clue?
> 
> Cristiano
> 
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