Disappearing clients in WINS list

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

hell dieter at "the pentagon.com"

couple of suggestions.

1) up the "os level" parameter to at least a value of 4, but make sure 
that the one with "domain master = yes" has the highest os level (no more 
than 255!!!)

2) run nmbd with nice --20 nmbd

3) make sure that you have at least 600 to 800k _per user_ on each 
samba server.  do a ps -aux | grep smbd | wc, and multiply the number of 
lines by 0.8 to get the amount of memory your server should have, at least.

let me know what happens.  i have one other suggestion that will require 
config of your w95 machines...

luke


On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Dieter Rothacker wrote:

> 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 !
> 

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