(Lack Of) Resilience Of WINS Registration

[Andrew Bartlett]

"Christopher R. Hertel" wrote:
> 
> > >>>> Nick Boyce asked :
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> then our Sambas all drop off the map until we
> > >>>>> notice (the phone calls coming in !) and restart nmbd on all the Samba
> > >>>>> boxes.
> > >>
> > >> Andrew Bartlett wrote :
> > >>
> > >> This is a old samba bug thats been known about for a *long* time.  I
> > >> think sombody finally fixed it in recent 2.2.  Basically, Samba doens't
> > >> re-register, it assumes that the WINS server is stable and doesn't loose
> > >> entries.
> > >
> > > Yes, I've been told the same by others...
> >
> > Fantastic - thanks a lot folks.   IIUC, you're saying a Samba server will
> > now periodically re-register ...
> 
> Andrew B:  Is this fixed in 2.2.2?

Somebody needs to check.  I thought it was, but I may have confused it
with the periodic password change bug.  (Similarly long running bug that
only recently got fixed).

Andrew Bartlett

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