WINS, dialup, and netlogon problems

[Jeremy Allison]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> 1. The user's PC logs in one night and they get:
> 
>     IP address =172.16.10.120
> 
>    so they have a PC#00, PC#03 and PC#20 all saying 172.16.10.120
> 
>    Next night they log in, because a different modem is used, they get:
> 
>     IP address = 172.16.10.121
> 
>    so they have a PC#00, PC#03, and PC#20 all saying 172.16.10.121 as well
>    as the entries above!
> 
>    We have 1.9.18p10 and I have seen the above.
> 

Well the nmbd in 1.9.18p10 will register a name multiple-times
for the same IP address, but only if the second registration
is a multi-homed registration.

Are these machines coming in over a dialup line ? If so this
dialup IP registration may very well be a multi-homed 
registration.

> 2.  We are doing things with smbclient against the above dial-in PCs, but
> smbclient will not use WINS, and if you put WINS SERVER = <server ip
> address> in the smb.conf pointing to the machine which runs samba (which is
> the same machine that we do smbclient on) and have WINS SUPPORT = on, since
> we are a WINS server, nmbd refuses to run.
> 
> How are we to get smbclient to do WINS lookups?

Doesn't smbclient use the host lookup switchtable 
function ? In which case it should use either
gethostbyname(), WINS or broadcast - depending
on how you have the "name resolve order" set.

Jeremy.


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