Error registering DOMAINNAME<1b> with 1.9.18p4 WINS server

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Wed Sep 9 18:26:18 GMT 1998


> > > This is a general question.  This is a queued netbios packet to be sent
> > > from the problem PDC to the WINS server.  Why is the bcast flag set to
> > > 0 but the node_type = B_NODE?

> 
> Right.  I got that.  Question was directed mot to the B_NODE flag.
> If I have set the 'wins server' paramet in smb.conf the samba_nb_type 
> should be set to NB_MFLAG arther than NB_BFLAG which is what is showing 
> up in the outgoing packet

> void set_samba_nb_type(void)
> {
>   if( lp_wins_support() || (*lp_wins_server()) )
>     samba_nb_type = NB_MFLAG;       /* samba is a 'hybrid' node type. */
>   else
>     samba_nb_type = NB_BFLAG;       /* samba is broadcast-only node
> type. */
> } /* set_samba_nb_type */

names are not just registered as "mixed" or "hybrid": they must also be
registered independently on each netbios-broadcast subnet.  as type "B".

luke



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