[Samba] problem with nmbd renewing WINS registration

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jason Barker wrote:

> 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!"?

Hmmm....I thought we already fixed this before the 2.2.3 release.
I'll look into it.  You're sure that the binaries you are using 
are 2.2.3a right?  Are you using a Samba WINS server or an NT 
WINS server?








cheers, jerry
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