[Samba] WINS and INet~Services name

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:56:39PM +0000, Leon Stringer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've posted before about the problem with WINS and the INet~Services
> name IIS uses.
> (http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-August/110189.html)
> 
> The problem I get is when any host running IIS tries to renew its names
> with the Samba WINS server (e.g. after the default 5-day period) the
> renewal fails for *all* names for the server.
> 
> As I understand it the problem is with Samba's WINS server
> implementation not handling the mixed case Windows uses for the
> "Inet~Services#1c" name. (Am I correct in thinking all other NetBIOS
> names are upper case only?).

No, that's not the issue, at least not with modern nmbd code.

You might want to try upgrading from 3.0.4, I definately fixed
case-sensitive bugs in this code between then and now.

Jeremy.