Disappearing clients in WINS list

[Dieter Rothacker]

Hi !

I have a problem with Samba WINS-clients diappearing from the
browse-list of my Samba WINS-server.

Connected to the WINS server are 4 subnets (one C-class net) with Win95,
WinNT and Samba clients (around 70 clients are online). The problem
occurred when new (perhaps misconfigurated) Windows-clients were
attached.

Suddenly some of the Samba boxes disappear out of the network
neighbourhood and the brose list of the WINS server, although the
server has their name<00>, name<03> and name<20> in its wins.dat.

I am in the same subnet with my Windows box, and a "nbtstat -a" gives
for the WINS server (samba 1.9.17p3):

ROUTER100      <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
ROUTER100      <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
ROUTER100      <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01>  GROUP       Registered
WORKGROUP      <00>  GROUP       Registered
WORKGROUP      <1B>  UNIQUE      Registered
WORKGROUP      <1D>  UNIQUE      Registered
WORKGROUP      <1E>  GROUP       Registered

and for the disappeared WINS client (samba 1.9.17p3):

DODO           <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
DODO           <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
DODO           <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
WORKGROUP      <00>  GROUP       Registered
WORKGROUP      <1E>  GROUP       Registered

Evrything seems okay, I do not have a clue why it does not appear.

Restarting the clients' nmbd makes them show up again.

None of the Windows clients disappear, so it seems to be a samba bug ?

Appreciating any help,
-- 
Dieter Rothacker, Student of computer science

TMTOWTDI, and the other ones are always better !