[Samba] WINS and INet~Services name

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:21:23PM +0000, Leon Stringer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:00 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:56:39PM +0000, Leon Stringer wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I've upgraded to 3.0.21b and my problem still occurs. Here's a test
> case:
> 
> 1. When I boot a Win 2000 Server host with IIS services starting by
> default the server name *can* be resolved by my Samba WINS server
> (tested with nmblookup from another server).
> 
> 2. If I then do "nbtstat -RR" to renew the registration (presumably this
> is the equivalent of the 5-day renewal period) the name can *not* be
> resolved.
> 
> 3. If I then stop the "World Wide Web Publishing Service" and "IIS Admin
> Service" services and do "nbtstat -RR" the name *can* be resolved.
> 
> 4. If I then start the above services and again do "nbtstat -RR" the
> name again fails to be resolved.
> 
> So presumably there's still an issue if it's not case sensitive.
> 
> Am I missing something or should I file it in Bugzilla.

Please file in bugzilla with a debug level 10 log of nmbd.

That way we can track it.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.