Description of problem: Don't know if this is expected behaviour or not but it's better to report it and it can then be closed as a NOTABUG. If you create a workgroup that has the same name as machine on the network then the smbclient tries to connect to that one. For example I have 2 machines, one called test.fedora.org and another called samba-test.fedora.org and they are both on the same network. I setup a samba share on samba-test.fedora.org with WORKGROUP = TEST then I would try to connect to the samba server using smbclient -L \\TEST Connection to TEST failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED) while smbclient -L \\samba-test.fedora.org would connect perfectly Running strace -f on smbclient -L \\TEST will reveal that it tried to connect to test.fedora.org. Now running python code.. python -c 'import smbc;print smbc.Context().opendir("smb://").getdents()' would yield the responce <smbc.Dirent object "TEST" (Workgroup) at 0xb7eed470> While .. python -c 'import smbc;print smbc.Context().opendir("smb://TEST").getdents()' Gives you this. got no contact to IPC$ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> RuntimeError: (110, 'Connection timed out') Running strace on the above command would also reveal it tried to connect to test.fedora.org python -c 'import smbc;print smbc.Context().opendir("smb://samba-test.fedora.org").getdents()' Would yield in a successful connection. Now this seems to be spreading to application aswell for instance let's take nautilus for example. you feed it smb://TEST:samba-test.fedora.org and it connects then it seems to take the intellect desicion to hey I'll just use the workgroup from now on shrinks it to smb://TEST and vouila you loose connection... And according to smb://name/ This command causes libsmbclient to perform a name look-up. If the NAME<1D> or NAME<1B> exists (workgroup name), libsmbclient will list all servers in the workgroup (or domain). Otherwise, a name look-up for the NAME<20> (machine name) will be performed, and the list of shared resources on the server will be displayed. It should list all workgroups before performing name lookup. So is it performing NS-lookup before workgroup or not? Bug or expected behavior. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. The above 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
> So is it performing NS-lookup before workgroup or not? > Bug or expected behavior. Are you still experiencing this behaviour? What version of samba are you using now? F9 or Rawhide? I'm moving this to ASSIGNED since your issue is well described and we can close it if it's not an issue any more.
You might want to talk to twaugh he fixed this in s-c-p dont know if that fix made it upstream or if he worked around this problem. I was doing some testing for him when I came across this issue. If you have a machine called test.example.com on the network create a workgroup with the name test and you should come across this issue.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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