[Samba] really tough question about wins database

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:01, jason wrote:
> [global]
>         add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c
> 'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u
>         workgroup = ARCHANGEL
>         netbios aliases = CYBERCENTER PARISHCENTER
>         netbios name = PENGUIN
>         server string = Samba Server %v
>         security = SERVER
Are you sure you want SERVER security - it's very rarely appropriate...
read the doc file on that parameter
>         guest account = nobody
>         map to guest = bad user
>         #security = user
>         os level = 33
>         domain master = No
>         domain logons = No
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         password server = 10.10.10.99
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 50
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         printcap name = lpstat
>         dns proxy = No
>         wins support = Yes
>         hosts allow = hosts allow = 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0
>         printing = cups
>         print command = /usr/bin/lp -d%p -oraw %s; rm %s
>         lpq command = /usr/bin/lpstat -o%p
>         lprm command = /usr/bin/cancel %p-%j
>         queuepause command = /usr/bin/disable %p
>         queueresume command = /usr/bin/enable %p
> 
> 
> 
> my question is, ive got wins turned on, smbd and nmbd are running, but
> there is no wins.dat in /usr/local/samba/var/locks
> actually there is nothing in that directory.


> why isnt it there? what am I missing?

depending on whether you installed from an rpm or from the source tgz
file wins.dat could show up in various locations

do a search for wins.dat

locate wins.dat
or 
find -name wins.dat (if you don't have the locate db running)


did you set up your clients to point to the wins server?

what does the nmbd log say?

brad