WINS problems - 1.9.17p1 and p2

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Ivan Auger wrote:

> I get the following message (and the PC's cannot browse the network - and
> samba is compiled with DES support).
> 
> WINS server did not respond to name registration!

you shouldn't get this unless you have "wins server = x.x.x.x".


check your interface addresses in the log.smb and log.nmb files.  check
the network addresses of your pcs.  check the network addresses of your
unix machine.

> 
> My smb.conf has:
> 
>    status = yes
>    security = user
>    os level = 33
>    workgroup = CMB
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    preferred master = yes
>    domain master = yes 
>    domain logons = yes
>    logon script = %U.bat
>    wins support = yes
>    share modes  = yes


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