[nflug] duplicate name - samba ldap winxp

Eric Benoit eric at bootz.us
Tue Jun 17 05:48:30 EDT 2008


Thanks Darin, I think you might have mistook laptop for ldap though :)

definitly going to try wireshark and found some other helpful tools ... 
nbtscan and smb-nat

I think I'm just overlooking something very obvious, and I'm digging too 
deep

Darin Perusich wrote:
> I'd start by inspecting your Samba and the laptops logs for relevant 
> errors. The client system might have an idea as to which system has 
> it's "name". If this leads nowhere you may need to load up wireshark 
> and start sniffing the network traffic, likely from the laptop.
>
> Eric Benoit wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> I have an issue with netbios I think.
>>
>> When I add a new XP computer to my samba/ldap domain server(ADS)  I 
>> get a very nice message saying welcome to  domain, I then check my 
>> ldap directory and the computer is listed, however when the computer 
>> restarts I get a message that says duplicate name exists on the 
>> network...
>> ...I am very sure there is no other computer with this name...  I was 
>> wondering if someone could point me the right direction for trouble 
>> shooting this issue.  To me it's obvious that something is mis 
>> configured but on which side... the XP client or the server or both?
>>
>



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