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

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I agree that the LMB name should be a group name. The DMB clearly 
has to be unique, though.
 
> 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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Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com