Wins Server Failing!

[Alin Osan]

On 25 Jan 2001, at 15:21, samba at house-o-fun.dhs.org wrote:

> Here is the panic that I get
> 
> [2001/01/25 13:25:25, 1] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(747)
>   Netbios nameserver version 2.0.6 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994-1998
> [2001/01/25 13:25:25, 0] nmbd/asyncdns.c:start_async_dns(150)
>   started asyncdns process 4618
> [2001/01/25 13:25:26, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(342)
>   become_domain_master_browser_wins:
>   Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup TEST, subnet
> UNICAST_SUBNET. [2001/01/25 13:25:26, 0]
> nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_wins(357)
>   become_domain_master_browser_wins: querying WINS server at IP
>   127.0.0.1
> for domain master browser name TEST<1b> on workgroup TEST
> [2001/01/25 13:25:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(40)
>   ===============================================================
> [2001/01/25 13:25:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41)
>   INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 4615 (2.0.6)
>   Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
> [2001/01/25 13:25:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(43)
>   ===============================================================
> [2001/01/25 13:25:26, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2456)
>   PANIC: internal error
> 
> This is a very strange amchine...  its is mainly a router.  It has
> three interfaces, one ethernet to my cable modem, one ethernet to my
> lan and one wirelees ethernet PCMCIA card.  I am trying to keep it
> battened down so it will not server anything to the cable modem side
> of the world.  Here is my config
> 
> My testing reveals that enabling/disabling wins support causes this to
> crop up.  I also noted that a machine on my network is named tyler's
> with the ' ...  this seems like a bad thing (tm) but crashing the wins
> server is bad!  I also wonder what this does to the log file= line
> I've got since it would make an invalid file name...  hurmpf  I'll try
> removing that host and see what happens...  but I thought I would get
> the ball rolling in this mailing list...
> 
> [global]
>    workgroup = TEST
>    server string = Samba Server
>  #These are my localhost, local lan, and wireless networks
>    hosts allow = 192.168.128. 127. 192.168.129
>    printcap name = /etc/printcap
>    load printers = yes
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    max log size = 50
>    security = user
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
>   unix password sync = Yes
>   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>   passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password*
>   %n\n *passw$
>     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>    bind interfaces only = true
>    interfaces = 192.168.128.1/24 \
>                 127.0.0.1/24 \
>                 129.168.129.0/24
> #Do I need this if I am a wins box?
>    remote announce = 192.168.128.255
>    local master = yes
>   os level = 34
>    domain master = yes
>   preferred master = yes
>    wins support = yes
>    dns proxy = no
> 
> After that I got some shares...

Upgrade to samba 2.0.7 and see if this happens again.





Alin Osan
Network Administrator
"Fundatia Casa"
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