[Samba] WINS Caching Error?
Chad Vincent
chad at rhiannonweb.com
Mon Apr 5 18:43:01 GMT 2004
Bringing this back to the ML incase someone else has some insight....
Removed wins.dat from /var/lib/samba, restarted samba, still no
luck. smbclient is still looking at the old address.
I just checked, and it rebuilt wins.dat exactly as it was before. A backup
copy somewhere, perhaps?
"[DOMAIN]#1c" 1081448833 192.168.x.195 192.168.x.19 e4R
"[SERVER]#00" 1081448833 192.168.x.195 192.168.x.19 66R
"[SERVER]#03" 1081448833 192.168.x.195 192.168.x.19 66R
"[SERVER]#20" 1081448833 192.168.x.195 192.168.x.19 66R
*** THEN AN EPIPHANY OCCURS ***
Stopped Samba, THEN deleted the wins.dat, then re-started samba. All is
right with the world. For now, at least.
It must read the cached file on start-up, then re-write it on shutdown.
The big question is, though... why aren't the old addresses getting
un-registered when new ones are registered with WINS? Or if that's
standard, why do the old addresses take precedent over the new ones?
At 12:57 PM 4/5/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >ls /var/cache/samba/
> >
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 962 Apr 05 13:27 browse.dat
> >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 104 Mar 22 09:05 printing
> >
> >No wins.dat.....
> >
> > >find / wins.dat
> >
> >find: wins.dat: No such file or directory
>
>
>Hmmm.
>
>ls /var/cache/samba/
>brlock.tdb messages.tdb ntforms.tdb share_info.tdb
>browse.dat namelist.debug ntprinters.tdb smbd.pid
>connections.tdb nmbd.pid printing.tdb unexpected.tdb
>locking.tdb ntdrivers.tdb sessionid.tdb wins.dat
>
>I'm still running 2.2.8a, I wonder if 3.x puts its
>WINS data somewhere else.
>
>I just did a quick (and I mean quick) bit of googling, I searched
>for "samba 3 wins.dat" and the first entry that comes up is
>from a guy who is having a similar issue to you, and is using
>Debian. He shows wins.dat as living in /var/lib/samba instead
>of /var/cache/samba. You may want to read it:
>
>http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-December/076382.html
>
>HTH,
>
>--J(K)
Chad Vincent
Owner
RhiannonWEB
Phone: 330-283-4681
To: "'Chad Vincent'" <chad at rhiannonweb.com>
Subject: RE: [Samba] WINS Caching Error?
It's possible you have a corrupted wins.dat.
On my system it's in /var/cache/samba/ and
I've sucessfully changed it without trouble
(I had an issue similar to yours). Just
make your change to the wins.dat and restart
Samba. (Make sure you make a backup first --
it worked for me, but it might not for you.)
HTH,
--J(K)
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
>samba-bounces+kodak=frontierhomemortgage.com at lists.samba.org
>[mailto:samba-bounces+kodak=frontierhomemortgage.com at lists.samb
>a.org] On Behalf Of Chad Vincent
>Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:26 AM
>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: [Samba] WINS Caching Error?
>
>
>Here is the problem:
>
>Installed Debian Woody
>Installed Samba 3.02a-1
>Setup Samba
>Setup Network to use Static IP address (Being a PDC / WINS
>Server and all...)
>
>Now I'm getting the following:
>
> >ifconfig eth0
>eth0:
>Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr: [MAC address here]
>inet addr:192.168.x.19 Bcast:192.168.x.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
>UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>.....etc....
>
> >smbclient -L [SERVER]
>Error connecting to 192.168.x.195
>Connection to [SERVER] failed
>
> >ping [SERVER]
>PING [SERVER].localdomain (192.168.x.19): 56 data bytes
>64 bytes from 192.168.x.19: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.0ms
>**SNIP**
>
> >cat /etc/hosts
>**SNIP**
>192.168.x.19 [server].localdomain [server]
>
>Normally, I wouldn't be too concerned, but apparently this has
>propagated
>into WINS, and so we have one computer (so far, we're
>transitioning to this
>new server in stages) that cannot connect to the server until
>the NetBIOS
>has propagated to it, and I don't want to have to set up a
>custom LMHOSTS
>for every client. That's what WINS is for.
>
>Also, if it makes any difference, 192.168.x.195 was the last
>DHCP address
>on that network card before I changed it to Static IP.
>
>Appropriate sections of smb.conf, ask if you need more:
>
>[global]
>interfaces=eth0 192.168.x.19
>netbios name=[SERVER]
>workgroup=DM.NET
>security=USER
>socket options=TCP_NODELAY
>dns proxy=no
>os level=65
>domain master=yes
>prefered master=yes
>wins support=yes
>local master=yes
>domain logons=yes
>name resolve order=wins lmhosts bcast host
>
>
>Chad Vincent
>Owner
>RhiannonWEB
>Phone: 330-283-4681
>
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