wins.dat contains 127.0.0.1 for local server

[Florian G. Pflug]

On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 11:39:00PM +1100, Mike Holling wrote:
> I couldn't really find anything about this in the archives, sorry if it's
> been beat to death.  I've got a Debian Linux box running kernel 2.0.33.
> The machine has two ethernet cards and does NAT between a LAN and a cable
> modem link.  For some reason, it's got 127.0.0.1 listed for its name:
> 
> root at spruce:/var/samba>cat wins.dat
> "SPRUCE#20" 914324043 127.0.0.1 46R
> "SPRUCE#03" 914324043 127.0.0.1 46R
> "SPRUCE#00" 914324043 127.0.0.1 46R
> "GIGI#00" 914324043 255.255.255.255 c4R
> "GIGI#1e" 914324043 255.255.255.255 c4R
> "GIGI#1b" 914096552 127.0.0.1 44R
> 
> The correct address should be 192.168.1.1.  I have "interface
> 192.168.1.1/24" in my smb.conf.  The system otherwise works fine, but when
> a windows machine does a "Find Computer" it gets the bogus 127.0.0.1 from
> the WINS server.  Other Samba servers can find it by its correct IP
> address.  I started digging through the source but couldn't find where
> nmbd initially generated this information.
> 
> - Mike
Hi

Maybe you have a bogus /etc/hosts -it should contain
<your hostname> <your ip-address> 
rather then
<your hostname> <127.0.0.1>


                                   Hope this helps, FLorian Pflug