wins and smbd api

[Herb Lewis]

Worse case all you should need to restart would be nmbd. You
can leave smbd alone as it has nothing to do with the name
registration. Restarting nmbd (and maybe only sending it a
HUP - though I didn't look at this to be sure) should cause
it to register it's names again.

Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:49:56PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:26:25AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:27:42AM -0700, David Bear wrote:
>>>
>>>>for some strange reason, our wins servers occasionally drop samba
>>>>servers out of there name space. to deal with this, I cron'ed a
>>>>restart of samba at midnight everynight. This was a quick solution,
>>>>but a lousy one.
>>>>
>>>>I would rather have some way to have samba regularly send name
>>>>registration requests to wins. Is there a way to do this?
>>>>
>>>>barring that, is there some interface I can query on samba before
>>>>sending it a kill signal to make sure there are no open files? I would
>>>>like a 'gracefull' way to have samba resatart.
>>>
>>>smbstatus will tell you what files are open - we need to add a
>>>smbcontrol interface to allow "graceful" closing of files (although
>>>it won't be graceful to the client of course :-).
>>
>>yes, I know smbstatus will tell me what files are open. however,
>>theres a lot of text to parse.  sorry to be lazy but is there an
>>option have the output be in more of a stuctured format. text
>>interfaces are ok... 
> 
> 
> While it would be nice to have a clean shutdown/restart, the actual 
> problem is the WINS server forgetting the registrations.  Windows systems 
> refresh every 40 minutes (at least, the ones I tested a few years ago 
> did).  Try changing the refresh frequency on the Samba servers and see if 
> the problem goes away.  Fourty minutes would be 2400 seconds.
> 
> Chris -)-----
>