Samba as a PDC - Windows Vista

ronmexico acuralegend at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 23:40:01 GMT 2007


I identified the problem: WINS is not working

I don't know much about WINS on *nix. All the docs I read indicate "wins
support = yes" does everything for me.

How do I look @ the WINS database?
What command line utils can I use on my *nix box to confirm WINS resolution
is working?

I have WINS TCP/UDP and NetBIOs TCP/UDP on in /etc/services

I see now that the "dns proxy = yes" was causing me grief, it was taking the
failed WINS lookups and forwarding them to the DNS server (Bind 9). DNS
registration (apparently) is not supported in Samba 3.23 (possibly in Samba
4)....


ronmexico wrote:
> 
> Ok......
> 
> I added the SRV records to my Bind 9 DNS server. I'm now gettinga
> DIFFERENT WINS/DNs resolution error. I am now getting the following error
> when trying to join a Windows Vista client to the 'HOMENET.LOCAL' domain
> [controlled by 'fbsd.homenet.local' (192.168.21.10)...]
> 
> DNS was successfully queried for the service location (SRV) resource
> record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller for domain
> homenet.local:
> 
> The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.homenet.local
> 
> The following AD DCs were identified by the query:
> 
> fbsd.homenet.local
> 
> Common causes of this error include:
> 
> - Host (A) records that map the name of the AD DCs to its IP addresses are
> missing or contain incorrect addresses.
> 
> - Active Directory Domain Controllers registered in DNS are not connected
> to the network or are not running.
> 
> PING fbsd.homenet.local FROM VISTA = SUCCESS
> 
> Here is my smb.conf:
> 
>    [global]
>     workgroup = HOMENET.LOCAL
>     netbios name = FBSD
>     dns proxy = yes
>     security = user
>     passdb backend = tdbsam
>     wins support = yes
>     printcap name = cups
>     add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u
>     delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u
>     add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
>     delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
>     add user to group script = /usr/sbin/groupmod -A %u %g
>     delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/groupmod -R %u %g
>     add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d
> /var/lib/nobody %u
>     # Note: The following specifies the default logon script.
>     # Per user logon scripts can be specified in the user account using
> pdbedit
>     #logon script = scripts\logon.bat
>     # This sets the default profile path. Set per user paths with pdbedit
>     logon path = \%L\profiles\%U
>     #logon path =
>     logon drive = H:
>     logon home = \%L\home\%U
>     #logon home =
>     domain logons = Yes
>     os level = 66
>     preferred master = Yes
>     domain master = Yes
>     idmap uid = 15000-20000
>     idmap gid = 15000-20000
> 
> 
> Also worth noting: I cannot get the samba server 'fbsd' to show up in the
> 'Network' (read: Network Places) in Vista, but I *can* get to it from
> '\\fbsd'
> 
> Anyone havea ny thoughts???
> 
> 
> 
> 

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