[Samba] WINS and INet~Services name

Leon Stringer leon.stringer at ntlworld.com
Sun Feb 26 14:28:01 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:25 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3557



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