Adding NT Workstations to a SAMBA-controlled domain

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Brent russell wrote:

> 
> With Win95 installed, everything worked grand from the client side.  I could
> log into the domain, see my shares, access them etc etc etc...  However, two
> things didn't work.  Firstly, if I selected wins, and pointed it at VATICAN
> (samba) (192.168.0.254), then rebooted, wins was disconnected.  Looking at
> the logs showed that wins started, and it connected to the subnet name
> WINS_SERVER_SUBNET [debug=10 :) ] - first problem, shouldn't that be
> broadcast address 192.168.0.255 (or does 0.0.0.0 map to both 192.168.0.255
> and 192.168.0.254 to provide wins on all previously defined subnets?)


you will need wins server = yes in order to use samba as a wins server.

luke

<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.anu.edu.au" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
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> My smb.conf is:
> 
> [global]
> password level = 10
>    workgroup = samba
>    netbios name = vatican
>    server string = Samba Server
>    hosts allow = 192.168.0.
>    domain sid = S-1-5-21-666-666-666-666
>    load printers = no
>   guest account = guest
>    log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
>    max log size = 50
>    security = user
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>    interfaces = 192.168.0.254/255.255.255.0
>    bind interfaces only = True
>    local master = yes
>    os level = 66
>    domain master = yes
>    preferred master = yes
>    domain logons = yes