FW: [Samba] protocol question

[L A Walsh]

Sorry for the 'newbie' type question, but I'm guessing asking 
protocol questions on the main list is, perhaps, maybe slightly
arcane...



> I'm trying to understand odd behavior in my LAN.  I'm running Samba
> 2.2.5 and trying to run it as a PDC. 
> 
> I have 1-2 win98 clients, 1 XPSP1 client, and 1 Win2kSP3 client.
> 
> I've managed to add the XP and 2K machines to the domain successfully,
> but
> still haven't finished configuring logins to work correctly 
> -- something
> about my user not having permission to write to \\server\uname\profile
> even though permissions on the various login paths and and netlogin
> shares would seem to be in order -- but I can play more with these.
> 
> My main question concerns ethereal trace output:
> 
> Quite often when My w2k client is doing a lookup on my local group, I
> see:
> 
> w2k -> server NBNS "Refresh MYGROUP <1d>"
> server -> w2k ICMP "Destination Unreachable"
> or more often:
> w2k -> server NBNS "Name query NB MYGROUP <1c>"
> server -> w2k ICMP "Destination Unreachable"
> (repeated several times per cycle)
> 
> So why is the supposed (?) PDC, "server", sending back ICMP packets --
> I thought ICMP dest unreachable's were for IP routing?  Why 
> am I seeing
> them in response to a NBNS refresh and name queries?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -linda
> 
> 
> 
> 
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