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ItachiSan

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Registered: 2013-09-02

Posts: 31

No more NetBIOS name resolution from ping/ssh

Hello,
I have installed some time ago the package "smbclient" in order to resolve IP addresses on my network.
However, some updates ago, the NetBIOS resolution went broke and now I can't resolve the host name properly.
Can you help me digging in stuff, in order to understand? Thank you.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,770

Re: No more NetBIOS name resolution from ping/ssh

What are the contents of your /etc/nsswitch.conf file?  Ensure you have wins in the hosts: line.

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: No more NetBIOS name resolution from ping/ssh

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48692

ItachiSan

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Registered: 2013-09-02

Posts: 31

Re: No more NetBIOS name resolution from ping/ssh

@Scimmia thanks for the link. I just installed the samba package and started winbindd. Will reboot to see if it works.

ItachiSan

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Registered: 2013-09-02

Posts: 31

Re: No more NetBIOS name resolution from ping/ssh

Update: still not working.
I have installed the samba package and enabled the winbindd service, also rebooted to be sure.

$ systemctl status winbindd.service 
● winbindd.service - Samba Winbind daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/winbindd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since sab 2016-04-09 11:46:03 CEST; 4min 59s ago
  Process: 850 ExecStart=/usr/bin/winbindd -D (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 925 (winbindd)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 512)
   CGroup: /system.slice/winbindd.service
           ├─925 /usr/bin/winbindd -D
           └─928 /usr/bin/winbindd -D

apr 09 11:45:58 antergos_E1-570G systemd[1]: Starting Samba Winbind daemon...
apr 09 11:46:03 antergos_E1-570G systemd[1]: Started Samba Winbind daemon.
apr 09 11:46:03 antergos_E1-570G winbindd[925]: [2016/04/09 11:46:03.471486,  0] ../source3/winbindd/winbindd_cache.c:3245(initialize_winbindd_cache)
apr 09 11:46:03 antergos_E1-570G winbindd[925]:   initialize_winbindd_cache: clearing cache and re-creating with version number 2
apr 09 11:46:03 antergos_E1-570G winbindd[925]: [2016/04/09 11:46:03.791771,  0] ../lib/util/become_daemon.c:124(daemon_ready)
apr 09 11:46:03 antergos_E1-570G winbindd[925]:   STATUS=daemon 'winbindd' finished starting up and ready to serve connections

$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf 
# Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf

passwd: files
group: files
shadow: files

publickey: files

hosts: files mdns dns wins myhostname  
networks: files

protocols: files
services: files
ethers: files
rpc: files

netgroup: files

# End /etc/nsswitch.conf

$

ItachiSan

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Registered: 2013-09-02

Posts: 31

Re: No more NetBIOS name resolution from ping/ssh

I have also tried to disable my firewall (ufw) and it is not working.

ccpaging

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Registered: 2012-01-24

Posts: 16

Re: No more NetBIOS name resolution from ping/ssh

Someone upgraded to 4.4.3, issue is gone. But I am no lucky. Downgrade samba, smbclient, libwbclient to 4.3.6, ping and smbnetfs are OK.

Last edited by ccpaging (2016-05-13 10:45:00)