[Samba] using winbind without a PDC

[Andy Fish]

Well I just tried wins in the nsswitch.conf and it worked even though I
don't have a WINS server. Thanks for the hint.

(I just had a look at the source for libnss_wins and it will do a broadcast
if there is no WINS server)

Andy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Buchan Milne" <bgmilne at cae.co.za>
To: "Andy Fish" <ajfish at blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 6:31 PM
Subject: [Samba] samba at lists.samba.org


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> > Hello
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> > Can someone tell me whether it is possible to use winbind on a simple =
> > windows workgroup (i.e. with no NT domain and hence no PDC). I *thought*
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> > I saw it work in samba 2.2.3 but now I am on 2.2.6 and the winbindd =
> > daemon won't start up - it loops forever in the initialization trying to
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> > contact the PDC.
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> winbind has no function without a domain controller, since it only works
> with users and groups, not hosts.
>
> > All I want to do is configure nsswitch.conf to resolve hostnames with =
> > netbios broadcast. If there is a simpler way than winbind, I'd be =
> > interested to know about it.
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> You are looking for nss_wins, you need to add "wins" to your hosts line
> of nsswitch.conf, assuming the rest (getting the libs in the right
> place) is done. Set a wins server in your smb.conf, and it should all
> work. Of course, you need a WINS server.
>
> Buchan
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