Thankyou for the explanation,it really helped me out.
thx
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>From: Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: What is NMB ?
>Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:49:43 -0600 (CST)
>
>On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Oussama Dbaibo wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:29:56 -0000
> > From: Oussama Dbaibo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: What is NMB ?
> >
> > From: "Oussama Dbaibo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Subject: What is "NMB" ?
> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 11:54:41 -0000
> >
> > Hello every body
> >
> > Well I am only 5 months with RHL 6.2 progressing fine.
> > I know that SMB stands for "SAMBA" server.
> > At shutdown 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' time I am getting :- NMB failuer
> > At boot time all is ok [ every thing ].
> > By the way I have only one machine with 4 users on it "loopback"
>127.0.0.1
> > ,,,all working
> > fine with KDE and Gnome and mail between each other.
> > So...
> > What is NMB?
> >
> > I could not find any thing in my reference book"The complete reference
>of
> > RHL 6.2" by Richard Peterson. Is this book enough for me?
> > Thx
> > Oussama: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>NMB is the NetBIOS name resolution protocol. When you configure your
>system for Samba, it will run both smbd and nmbd daemons. One of them
>(smbd)
>will take care of the file transfer, etc., while the other (nmbd) will take
>care of the NetBIOS name resolution thus making it possible for the hosts
>to show up in your "Network Neighborhood" in the Windows boxes.
>
>I've seen this problem before when the Linux or UNIX system is the only
>one in the network providing Samba services and yet the /etc/smb.conf file
>does not specify that this is the domain master (domain master = yes). In
>those cases, the Linux box keeps looking around for a master that doesn't
>exist and it usually causes these problems.
>
>Perhaps there are other instances where the error message could show up
>(incorrect workgroup information, I guess, would be another one), but
>I've definitely seen it in the situation I described here.
>
>
>
>
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