[Samba] problem with nmbd renewing WINS registration

[Jason Barker]

Hello again everyone,
We've got a Samba 2.2.3a server (Red Hat 7.2) running here, and it works
great, even winbind. We have had a slight problem ever since setting it up
though. A few weeks after setup was finished, and a bunch of stuff had been
moved onto it, some people could not access the server from the Network
Nieghboorhood. Pinging worked fine, as did connecting directly to it's IP
(\\aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd). Being in a hurry (Friday, you know), I restarted the
server really quick and everything was OK. So, I said "Huh, we'll see if it
happens again."
Well, a couple of weeks later, it did happen again. After doing some poking
around, the server's entry in DNS was OK, but it was no longer registered in
the WINS. I ran some searches on the mailing list, and there are quite a few
people who have reported the same problem in the past. It would seem the
nmbd is not renewing it's WINS registration before/after the release
timeout. This time, instead of restarting the entire server, I just
restarted the nmbd daemon, and poof, it registered itself with the WINS.
Now I know what to do to take care of the problem next time, but it is not a
very nice solution. I was wondering if there has been any work done to fix
this problem (perhaps in HEAD?). If someone has tried to track it down
before, and was unsucessful, would it be possible to at least include
something the next release so that I can give nmbd a kick in the butt, and
tell it "Hey! Renew yourself in the WINS, now!"?

Thanks.
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