[Samba] nbp hell

[Romeyn Prescott]

Greetings,

I spent the better part of a day tracking down a rather annoying 
problem.  I would like someone more knowledgeable than myself to 
confirm this diagnosis.

I have a RH 8.0 Linux box with three NICS.  I had been developing it 
testing with an XP box.  Everything seemed groovy.

Today I went to put it into "production" and Win98 clients were 
having all sorts of problems.

eth2 is the system's "default" interface.  eth1 is used for netatalk, 
and eth2 for samba.  I have used the interfaces and nind interfaces 
only options in smb.conf.

After more hairpulling, I did a packet capture on a hub with the Win98 client.

It seems that the client does an nbp query.  My server responds, but 
the response comes from eth2, not eth0!  Despite the packet's payload 
having the correct information (that the server the client seeks is 
at the IP address bound to eth0), Win98 decides that the server is at 
the IP address associated with the packet informing it of such.

I am told that this is a violation of the smb protocol.

Can anyone suggest a fix?  Should I just relegate samba to the 
server's "default" interface and not worry about this anymore?

Cheers,
...ROMeyn