Samba: Not in WINS problem

[Rafal Szczesniak]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Tobias Burnus wrote:

> 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.)

Don't rejoin the domain again and again. It's rather netbios (i.e.
nmbd) issue. Set the log level to 2-3 and check out what does it say.

> 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
>
>
>

Rafal 'Mimir' Szczesniak <mimir at spin.ict.pwr.wroc.pl>   |
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