ghost machines, revisited

[James W. Beauchamp]

You are correct - I didn't not think of that.  clients are only looking
where they are told to look and that doesn't explain why Samba keeps putting
the 'ghost' machines in the browse.dat file.

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rashkae" <rashkae at wealthmap.ca>
To: "Keith Warno" <keith.warno at valaran.com>
Cc: "James W. Beauchamp" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: ghost machines, revisited


> Umm, maybe someone could educamate me here....
>
> Why would Clients be polling a stray WINS server unless they were
> explicitly instructed (configured) to do so?
>
> As a related question, have you had a look at winipcfg on the clients to
> check and see if the DHCP server might be assigning some unwanted values
> to WINS?
>
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Keith Warno wrote:
>
>
>
> James W. Beauchamp wrote:
>
> > Sounds to me like you've go another WINS server running (unauthorized of
> > course) somewhere.  Maybe some WIndoze box somewhere?  NT server or 2000
web
> > server maybe.
> >
>
>
> Yes this is certainly a theory.  Although I though win2k clients (not
> server) were capable of doing this??
>
> I *do* have one win2k server running but it is completely off in it's
> own land (all by his lonesome in his own subnet); I do not administer
> the machine though as it is used for our voice network (not my cup o'
> java).  AFAIK that machine is not even in the same workgroup.
>
> Is there some easy means by which to tell if there is a stray WINS
> server out there?
>
>
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