Host list: connection timed out

[justeverything]

@george1421 I don’t have any windows computers in my network. but i can ping (normal ping, not icmp) the ubuntu clients over the terminal of the fog host by the short name “pool-05” or by the IP, both successfull.

if I ping a pool pc from the server using “nc -zvv <ip_addr> 445” I also get connection refused.

root@fog:/home/admin# nc -zvv IP 445
pool-14.domain [IP] 445 (microsoft-ds) : Connection refused
 sent 0, rcvd 0

Does your testing mean, that, if I install samba at my hosts, the ping would work?

I testet it installing samba and libnss-winbind and configured the file /etc/nsswitch.conf
from

hosts:      files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns 

to

hosts:      files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns 

now the output looks like this:

root@fog:/home/admin# nc -zvv IP 445
pool-14.domain [IP] 445 (microsoft-ds) open
 sent 0, rcvd 0

but the hosts list still returns an error “connection timed out”

Maybe, in a new version of fog, maybe the process of pinging using icmp can be changed to a normal ping to be more variable for linux hosts? that would be great.

I will also try the steps postet by @Tom-Elliott and write back if anything changes.

[alh]

We solved by doing the following:

On the FOG-Server install Winbind:

sudo apt-get install -y winbind libnss-winbind

Edit the Samba config:

# /etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
    ...
    workgroup = <domain/workgroup>
    ...
    wins server = <ipofyourwinsserver>
    ...

Edit the nsswitch config:

# /etc/nsswitch.conf

hosts: files dns wins

Reboot your server.

On the Windows 7 clients we had to add the following firewall rule:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="FOG Service" dir=in action=allow remoteip=<ipofyourFOGserver> protocol=tcp localport=445

That worked for us.