Samba disappearing from WINS

[Brian Bender]

FWIW, I've got 2 of 3 Samba boxes (Linux/Intel) that do the same thing.
Seems to be once every 3 to 4 weeks, haven't been able to attribute it to
anything yet.  I have to kill it and restart nmbd to re-reg with the WINS
server.  Both the machines that do this to me always go away at the same
time.  <:-\

Actually, speak of the devil, they're in that state right now.  The two that
I lose are versions 2.0.6 and 2.0.5a.  The one that _doesn't_ periodically
die is 1.9.18p10 (original RPM on a RedHat 5.2 box, not running smbd, only
running nmbd to give me dynamic DNS via WINS & MS' DNS).  NT WINS servers
are NT4 SP5.  Again had to kill nmbd and restart it to reregister.

Nothing at all in the .nmb logs, but I think they were running "-d 0".  I'll
try upping the debug level to 1 or 2 (suggestions, anyone?) and see if I get
anything useful out of the next incident...

 - Brian Bender
   Vocollect, Inc.
   Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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> Date:   Wed, 02 Feb 2000 09:19:44 -0500
> From:   William Knox <wknox at mitre.org>
> To:     samba at samba.org
> Subject: Samba disappearing from WINS
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> We are running samba 2.0.4b to provide corporate print services.
> Everything with regards to printing is working like a charm. However,
> twice in the past two weeks, some of our Samba servers have
> disappeared
> from the WINS servers. The WINS servers are NT servers
> running 4.0SP5.
>
> The strangest part was that in one occurrence, it was the lone samba
> server at one location, but in the other occurrence, it was four samba
> servers in another location (two different subnets) over one weekend.
>
> I saw nothing about this on a search of the samba lists that was less
> than a year and a half or so old (with regards to versions of 1.9.17).
> Is this something anyone else has seen? Is there a workaround of any
> sort?
> --
> 			Bill Knox
> 			Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
> 			The MITRE Corporation
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