Different IP addresses are returned when pinging Brisque with Samba from Windows


Product		Kodak^® Brisque^® 5.x software Brisque 4.x software
Platform		All Brisque platforms
Operating system		IBM^® AIX^® 4.3.3, 5.2

Symptoms		From a Microsoft^® Windows^® station, when you ping Brisque on which Samba is enabled, different IP addresses may be returned for the Brisque host name. This causes denied access to Brisque shares.

Cause		When there is no DNS entry in the Windows host file, Windows uses a NetBios broadcast to resolve the IP address for the Brisque host name. Samba is set up to detect all active interfaces on the Brisque, even if they are not physically connected to the network. Sometimes an IP address is bound to one of the disconnected network interfaces.

Solution		Use `ifconig - a` to identify the correct network interface on Brisque. Use `vi` to open the smb.conf file, which is located in /user/local/samba/lib. Verify that the following 2 entries exist in the [global] section of the file. If they do not exist, edit the file: `interfaces = en2` `bind interfaces only = Yes` Restart Samba on Brisque.

Technical contact(s)		Lev Weissman
Submitted by		Fabian Warkalla
Date submitted		25 Dec 2006