[Samba] Help - samba keeps dialing out

[Martyn Ranyard]

You mentioned the magic word - DNS

When Windows machines use dns to lookup windows names they can try all sorts 
of combinations of hostname and domainname (NT domainname included) ideally, 
tell the samba server not to act as a DNS proxy and if possible, don't let 
your windows clients use dns at all.

All-in-all it's very tricky thing, running windows clients on a 
dial-on-demand link - as I have found out to my cost.  I surmised on all the 
occations I attempted that if windows machines find themselves on a network 
they assume that it is for accessing the internet and I can verify that this 
actually happend on an NT 4.5 SBS machine as well.

Martyn Ranyard

On Sunday 03 March 2002 12:36, Tim Preece wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just set up samba on my FreeBSD 4.5 stable box, and have it
> integrating quite nicely with windows 2000 server ( not set up as a PDC
> ), however the FreeBSD server keeps dialing out approx every 10 minutes
> or so.
>
> The FreeBSD Server is also acting as a DNS Server ( IPv4 ) and the dial
> up is handled through the tunneling device. This has been working fine
> until I have installed samba and jdk1.3 plus some java tools.
>
> I really cant think that the jdk or the java tools would be calling out,
> as these are not even running, so I presume that it must be samba.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> My smb.conf is as follows ( names adjusted )
>
> // ---------------- BEGIN -------------------
>
> [global]
>     workgroup = workgroup
>     server string = File Server
>     hosts allow = 10.0.0. 127.
>     load printers = no
>     log file = /root/logs/samba
>     max log size = 50
>     security = user
>     encrypt passwords = no
>     socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>     dns proxy = no
>     client code page=850
>
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no
>    writeable = yes
>
> [tmp]
>    comment = Temporary file space
>    path = /tmp
>    read only = no
>    public = yes
>
> [backup]
>    comment = Backup directory
>    path = /usr/backups
>    read only = no
>    writable = yes
>    printable = no
>    public = no
>    valid users root
>    create mask = 0600
>
> // ----------------- END --------------------
>
> Regards
>
> Tim Preece.