nmbd, wins support, & broadcasts?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:23:05AM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jeremy,
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> Strange behavior in nmbd (tested 3.0.21a, 3.0.20b, and 3.0.14a).
> When a Samba PDC is configured as a WINS server and wins.dat
> has outdated records:
> 
> 	interfaces = vmnet1 lo
> 	bind interfaces only = yes
> 
> $ ifconfig vmnet1 | head -2
> vmnet1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01
> inet addr:192.168.56.1  Bcast:192.168.56.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> $ bin/nmblookup -U 192.168.56.1 -R 'FARSCAPE#1b'
> querying FARSCAPE on 192.168.56.1
> 192.168.56.1 FARSCAPE<1b>
> 192.168.1.159 FARSCAPE<1b>
> 192.168.115.1 FARSCAPE<1b>
> 
> Then nmblookup 'FARSCAPE#1b' failes to respond.  When I remove
> the outdated #1b records, nmbd responds to the broadcast name query.
> Any ideas why?  nmbd is more you code so I was hoping to pass this
> off :-)

I'm not going to be able to get to this today I'm afraid. I have
to backport the usershare stuff to a SuSE RPM for monday. Just
wanted to let you know.

Jeremy.