<1D> names Group or Unique names ...

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Richard,

I think it's pretty clear that that's how it is now.  Part of John's
inquiry, though, was "has it always been thus?"  There is some
documentation from Microsoft that claims that the 1D LMB name should be a
group name.  In fact, if it *were* a group name the whole system would
probably work better.  Weenies.  They took a ball-peen hammer to their
own WINS implementation just to break it into working.

The workgroup<00> name is actually a throw-back to an older browse system
(the LANMAN browse system) and, as you'll note, that name is a group name.

The kicker regarding your listings (below) is that your WINS server will 
tell you it knows nothing about TIGERTEAM<1d>.  If you watch the wire, 
however, node 172.17.133.233 will send its registrations to the WINS 
server and the WINS server will acknowledge them.  So the WINS server is 
lying when it says it doesn't know about them.

All this, just to get browsing to work...

Chris -)-----

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:32:29PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To further illustrate this, here is the result of nmblookup against a 
> Windows NT system that is the DC for a small domain we use:
> 
> Looking up status of 172.17.133.233
> 	SUNNYVALE       <00> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	TIGERTEAM       <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	SUNNYVALE       <03> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	SUNNYVALE       <20> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	TIGERTEAM       <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	INet~Services   <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	IS~SUNNYVALE    <00> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	TIGERTEAM       <1d> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	ADMINISTRATOR   <03> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 
> The following was actually against the DC, so you can see the <1C> entry 
> for the domain, TIGERTEAM, in the DCs list:
> 
> Looking up status of 10.0.1.15
> 	NT4PDC          <00> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	NT4PDC          <20> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	TIGERTEAM       <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	TIGERTEAM       <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	TIGERTEAM       <1b> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	TIGERTEAM       <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	NT4PDC          <03> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	INet~Services   <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	IS~NT4PDC       <00> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	TIGERTEAM       <1d> -         M <ACTIVE> 
> 	..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> 
> 	ADMINISTRATOR   <03> -         M <ACTIVE> 
>  
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
> 

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