Disappearing clients in WINS list
Dieter Rothacker
Didi at ThePentagon.com
Mon Oct 20 09:05:15 GMT 1997
Hi !
I have a problem with Samba WINS-clients diappearing from the
browse-list of my Samba WINS-server.
Connected to the WINS server are 4 subnets (one C-class net) with Win95,
WinNT and Samba clients (around 70 clients are online). The problem
occurred when new (perhaps misconfigurated) Windows-clients were
attached.
Suddenly some of the Samba boxes disappear out of the network
neighbourhood and the brose list of the WINS server, although the
server has their name<00>, name<03> and name<20> in its wins.dat.
I am in the same subnet with my Windows box, and a "nbtstat -a" gives
for the WINS server (samba 1.9.17p3):
ROUTER100 <00> UNIQUE Registered
ROUTER100 <03> UNIQUE Registered
ROUTER100 <20> UNIQUE Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <1B> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <1D> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <1E> GROUP Registered
and for the disappeared WINS client (samba 1.9.17p3):
DODO <00> UNIQUE Registered
DODO <03> UNIQUE Registered
DODO <20> UNIQUE Registered
WORKGROUP <00> GROUP Registered
WORKGROUP <1E> GROUP Registered
Evrything seems okay, I do not have a clue why it does not appear.
Restarting the clients' nmbd makes them show up again.
None of the Windows clients disappear, so it seems to be a samba bug ?
Appreciating any help,
--
Dieter Rothacker, Student of computer science
TMTOWTDI, and the other ones are always better !
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