[Samba] Error - should be sent to WINS server
Frank Matthieß
fm+samba at Microdata-POS.de
Mon Oct 21 12:20:01 GMT 2002
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:51:20PM +0200, Peter Lustig wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:10:18 +0400
> Alexander Kuznetsov <iam at alz27.nnov.ru> wrote:
>
> > PL> does anyone know what following error-message means ? This message returns any 4 minutes for any client
> > PL> in the lan:
> >
> > PL> -->
> > PL> Oct 21 10:03:18 TE-WET01 nmbd[16353]: [2002/10/21 10:03:18, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_refresh_request(183)
> > PL> Oct 21 10:03:18 TE-WET01 nmbd[16353]: process_name_refresh_request: unicast name registration request received for name CLIENTNAME<00> from IP 192.168.133.145 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
> > PL> Oct 21 10:03:18 TE-WET01 nmbd[16353]: [2002/10/21 10:03:18, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_refresh_request(184)
> > PL> Oct 21 10:03:18 TE-WET01 nmbd[16353]: Error - should be sent to WINS server
> > PL> <--
> >
> > PL> I've tried it with older and newer versions of samba (2.2.1a -> 2.2.5) - but the same messages appaers in /var/log/messages.
> > PL> Hope anyone can help me ...
> >
> > From source code :
> > "We should only get broadcast name registration packets here.
> > Anyone trying to register unicast should be going to a WINS
> > server. If the code gets here, then either we are not a wins
> > server and they sent it anyway, or we are a WINS server and
> > the request was malformed. Either way, log an error here.
> > and send an error reply back."
> >
>
> hi,
>
> thanx - but is it possible to disable those messages without
> changing something at the win-client ?
> The samba-server is not configured as wins-server. Should I
> enable Wins in smb.conf to prohibitive those messages ?
There are two ways to solve this 'problem':
1. You have an windows server, which runs wins
You told all windows network systems, that _this_ windows server ip
address is fro wins. Depending on static or dhcp ip's you have to
manualy assign wins in tcp/ip properties, or chaneg dhcp config and
do "ipconfig /renew" in a command windows.
For the samba system you must add "wins server = <winsserveripadr>
man smb.conf:
wins server (G)
This specifies the IP address (or DNS name: IP
address for preference) of the WINS server that
nmbd(8)should register with. If you have a WINS
server on your network then you should set this to
the WINS server's IP.
You should point this at your WINS server if you
have a multi-subnetted network.
NOTE. You need to set up Samba to point to a WINS
server if you have multiple subnets and wish cross-
subnet browsing to work correctly.
See the documentation file BROWSING.txt in the
docs/ directory of your Samba source distribution.
Default: not enabled
Example: wins server = 192.9.200.1
2. You want run wins on samba server.
Set "wins support = yes"
man smb.conf:
wins support (G)
This boolean controls if the nmbd(8)process in
Samba will act as a WINS server. You should not set
this to true unless you have a multi-subnetted net
work and you wish a particular nmbd to be your WINS
server. Note that you should NEVER set this to
true on more than one machine in your network.
Default: wins support = no
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Frank Matthieß fm+samba at Microdata-pos.de
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