**Fwd: RE: Samba WINS server killing NMBD process
Alder
ue191 at victoria.tc.ca
Mon Aug 5 22:27:21 GMT 2002
COLLOT Jean-Yves wrote:
>
> I have the feeling that NMBD exits at the end of the
> "wins_write_database" routine, because it thinks that it is currently
> running as a child process of a fork() call, whivh is not true under VMS.
>
> May be you could check :
>
> 1. that you have a WINS.DAT file in your SAMBA_ROOT:[VAR.LOCKS]
> directory, and that the modification date of this file is the same as
> your last try of running NMBD with WINS enabled, (if I am right, this
> is the last NMBD action before exiting)
>
Right on both counts.
> 2. If this is true, try to modify the NMBD_WINSSERVER.C file (in the
> [.NMBD] subdirectory of the SOURCE tree), by changing the line :
>
I was hoping I could get away with using the binaries only. I'll have
to download the complete sources and try from scratch..
> wins_write_database(True);
> with:
> wins_write_database(False);
>
> Then, recompile and relink NMBD.
>
>
>
Cheers,
Alder
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