[K12OSN] SMB and printing problems

[Krsnendu Dasa]

Everything is on the same subnet / network
There are no routers or firewalls between them.
I can ping by ip address.

Guy-Michel Lessard wrote:

> Are all the computers that you want to reach are all in the same 
> broadcast network?
> Are there any routers or firewalls setup between them?
> The fact that you cannot ping them by name may only be a name 
> resolution problem, can you ping them by IP?
>  
>
>
> >>> krsnendu at orcon.net.nz 2006-02-27 21:30:44 >>>
> I am having problems printing to printers attached to windows computers
> on the network.
>
> Behind this problem seems to be some SMB inconsistencies.
> When I go to Nautilus or Konqueror I can correctly browse all the
> computers and shares in the workgroup.
> But when I type findsmb from the command line I can only see k12ltsp,
> office and one teacher's laptop is shown 4 times.
> It shows twice for each ip address (wireless and wired). My laptop is
> not shown and one other teachers laptop is not shown although they show
> fine in nautilus.
> When I go to set up a printer using printconfig-gui I try to browse for
> my laptop but it is not shown. Only the ones shown by findsmb are
> listed. I tried entering the share info directly by that didn't work 
> either.
> I can ping my computer because I have listed it in etc/hosts
> I cannot ping any other computers by name even though they are listed
> under findsmb.
>
> When I type smbstatus my computer is listed but it says $IPC whereas the
> other computers say School Int before it. I am not sure if that is
> relevant or not.
>
> Hope someone can point me in the right direction to try to work this out.
>
> I am using K12ltsp 4.2.1
>
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