Samba: Not in WINS problem

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hello Tobias,
There is a known issue with wins re-registration, which will be fixed in
the upcomming release 2.2.2, that sounds like it matches the symptoms of 
your  FIRST problem.  The current workaround is to stop and restart ONLY
nmbd daemon on the samba client machine.  This will force a re-registration
of the samba machine to the wins server, while not affecting your current
smbd connections.

Hope this helps,
don

-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Burnus [mailto:tobias.burnus at physik.fu-berlin.de]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:44 AM
To: samba-technical at samba.org
Cc: Tobias Burnus
Subject: Samba: Not in WINS problem


Hi,

we use Samba-2.2-CVS-2001-06-28. One Samba is PDC and the other Sambas
(and windows computers) have joined this domain and use WINS.

a) Problem one:
Sometimes a samba client is no longer in WINS. Is there another methode
than to restart it?

(I just had the problem that the server which servers  the WWW directories
(\\www\www -> /www/%u ) has stopped to be visible from nmblookup and some
did still use it. Restarting when there are locked files isn't that good
and not-restarting prevents some users to get their WWW-dirs.
Forcing smbd to reload the config or re-joining the domain didn't help.)

b) Problem two
If the PDC dies (or only samba) all other sambas in that domain are no
longer in WINS as it seems. There are no problems with the Windows domain
members (as it seems).

Tobias