WINS Server/Browsing help required

[Inaki Sanchez]

Hi,

If your samba server can't contact its wins server at subnet aa.bb.cc.*, it won't be able to know the existence of the domain master browser for its domain. You have to find out why your samba server can't contact its wins server (a firewall problem?). Another solution would be to edit your lmhosts file and add a netbios name of type <domain_name>#1b with the ip address of the domain master browser (NT domain controler).

Hope this helps,

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Inaki Sanchez 
Redes y Comunicaciones 
Universidad de Navarra, Spain    <http://www.unav.es> 
<mailto:isanchez at unav.es>    +34 948425600 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Ferris, Richard
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 6:28 PM
> To: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: WINS Server/Browsing help required
> 
> 
> Hi there, I have a query about subnet browsing using Samba 
> 2.2.1a that I
> hope someone could help me with.  We have two subnets on our 
> network.  One
> that I'll call (aa.bb.cc.*) that we're moving from and 
> another (xx.yy.zz.*)
> that we're doing some testing on and will shortly be moving 
> to.  On the
> aa.bb.cc.* subnet we have an NT WINS server, which is also the domain
> controler for our domain.  On the new subnet xx.yy.zz.* I have a Samba
> server configured as the local master browser, which I've set 
> the OS level
> to 65 and set the workgroup to our domain.  The problem is 
> that from clients
> within  subnet xx.yy.zz.* I can only see/browse the machines 
> within that
> subnet.  I can't browse any machines from the old subnet.
> 
> When I start nmbd on the Samba server it wins the local 
> election but then
> seems to have a problem contacting the WINS server, this I 
> believe is the
> reason why the browsing isn't working?  Heres an extract from 
> the nmbd.log
> file:
> 
> [2001/10/10 16:13:40, 3] 
> nmbd/nmbd_namelistdb.c:add_name_to_subnet(249)
>   add_name_to_subnet: Added netbios name __MSBROWSE__<01> 
> with first IP
> xx.yy.zz
> .21 ttl=0 nb_flags=c0 to subnet UNICAST_SUBNET
> [2001/10/10 16:13:42, 2]
> nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name_timeout_response
> (201)
>   register_name_timeout_response: WINS server at address 
> aa.bb.cc.18 is not
> r
> esponding.
> [2001/10/10 16:13:42, 2]
> nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name_timeout_response
> (201)
>   register_name_timeout_response: WINS server at address 
> aa.bb.cc.18 is not
> r
> esponding.
> [2001/10/10 16:13:42, 2]
> nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name_timeout_response
> (201)
>   register_name_timeout_response: WINS server at address 
> aa.bb.cc.18 is not
> r
> esponding.
> 
> I can ping the WINS server from my samba server fine. I can also find
> windows machines across both subnets with by running \\SERVERNAME.
> 
> Heres a copy of my smb.conf file:
> 
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup = SAG-UK
>         netbios name = NS1
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         log level = 3
>         os level = 65
>         preferred master = True
>         domain master = False
>         dns proxy = No
>         wins server = aa.bb.cc.18
> 
> Many Thanks in Advance
> 
> Richard Ferris
> Systems Administrator
> 
> Tel: 01332 611139
> 
> 
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