"bug": DMB, bind interfaces and localhost

Stephan Lauffer lauffer at ph-freiburg.de
Wed Feb 23 09:42:40 GMT 2000


Hi all!

There´s a little problem if you want to set up your samba server as DMB
and if you want to use "bind interfaces only".
(in samba-2.x and TNG)

In many cases you must have localhost added to the interfaces, like:
interfaces = aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1
bind interfaces only = true

Then if you´ll set up your host as dmb (and pdc) like
domain master = true
domain logons = true
(...)
and your´re using another wins-server (in my network it´s a NT-Wins Server),
you´ll get an error message in the nmdb-logfiles like this:

(substituted ip of wins server to xxx.yyy.zzz.a)
================
[2000/02/22 18:03:16, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(755)
  Packet send failed to xxx.yyy.zzz.a(137) ERRNO=Invalid argument
[2000/02/22 18:03:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd_packets.c:send_netbios_packet(173)
  send_netbios_packet: send_packet() to IP xxx.yyy.zzz.a port 137 failed
[2000/02/22 18:03:16, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namerelease.c:release_name(233)
  release_name: Failed to send packet trying to release name LINUX-AG<00> IP 127.0.0.1
================

This causes samba not to become a dmb! And then you´ve got a little problem... ;-)

Liebe Gruesse,
Stephan Lauffer

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