[Samba] using winbind without a PDC

[Andy Fish]

The problem is that I have a pure P2P network and don't want to rely on
having any of the computers left on all the time. My NAT router (which
obviously is on all the time) acts as a DHCP server but does not do WINS or
DNS for the LAN.

I have now configured libnss_wins for hosts lookup in my nsswitch.conf and
everything works fine (it does a broadcast if there is no wins server).
Aplogogies if this is considered a bodge ;-)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley W. Langhorst" <brad at langhorst.com>
To: "Andy Fish" <ajfish at blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] using winbind without a PDC


> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 11:50, Andy Fish wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Can someone tell me whether it is possible to use winbind on a simple
windows workgroup (i.e. with no NT domain and hence no PDC). I *thought* I
saw it work in samba 2.2.3 but now I am on 2.2.6 and the winbindd daemon
won't start up - it loops forever in the initialization trying to contact
the PDC.
> >
> i don't think so
> > All I want to do is configure nsswitch.conf to resolve hostnames with
netbios broadcast. If there is a simpler way than winbind, I'd be interested
to know about it.
>
> i don't know any way to do this - but it just sounds like a bad idea to
> me...
>
> use dhcp and a dynamic dns for this.
> (and make samba a wins server too)
>
> brad
>
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