ghost machines, revisited

Keith Warno keith.warno at valaran.com
Thu Jan 3 11:25:02 GMT 2002


James W. Beauchamp wrote:

> that's very interesting.... Not what you wanted to hear I'm sure....Have you
> checked on the samba server for the actual contents of wins.dat?  It might
> be in /var/lock/samba or somewhere else depending upon your configuration.
> Look in there and see if the 'ghost' machines are actually there.  If they
> are then that is a WINS problem and maybe one of the developers can shed
> some light on it.  I don't recall what the update time for WINS is but I
> thought that within 30 minutes the list should refresh.
> 
> James


OK I am seeing these ghosts in browse.dat (not wins.dat).  In fact 
they're in browse.dat files on all the samba servers.

I'm going to experiment a bit more with the configurations.



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