[Samba] OK, one more time on the PDC thing

[charlesh at pingouin.ca]

Hi

It seems that your Client VENUS tries to register itself to the WINS server it is configured to. Check what WINS server is configured using "ipconfig /all" in   a DOS prompt.

If your client's WINS server is configured to be a.b.c.d and your domain PDC IP is a.b.c.d but the "wins server" parameter of smb.conf is set to "no" then it would seem logical that the error is "Should be sent to the WINS".

Please post your "ipconfig /all" output and your smb.conf file.

Charles

Quoting "Sean P. Elble" <elbles at sessys.com>:

> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Eric Evans wrote:
>
>> My apologies, I'm terribly sorry to belabor these PDC issues to the point where everyone is undoubtedly tired of hearing about them, but I have become absolutely obsessed with trying to solve this PDC problem.  Here is what is happening now.  I'm trying to connect to the Samba server which is set up as the PDC (domain PLAB) from windows client "venus".  Windows prompts me to enter a username and password.  I enter the username and password for root. It comes back and says it can't find a network path to that domain.  Here's the message that appears in my samba log file:
>>
>> [2006/07/07 14:40:18, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_refresh_request(183)
>> process_name_refresh_request: unicast name registration request received for name VENUS<20> from IP 128.253.175.150 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
>> [2006/07/07 14:40:18, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_refresh_request(184)
>> Error - should be sent to WINS server
>>
>> Can anybody tell me what this error means?
>>
>
> I do not have your original smb.conf file available, as I am at work and only have shell access to this e-mail account, but just as a shot in the dark, are you running WINS on your Samba server? IIRC, a PDC is always expected to be running WINS, so it looks like it's having problems registering "venus" in the Windows/Samba domain. So, I would check to see if you are running that . . . if you aren't, I'd give that a shot, and I'll try to verify a few more things when I get home for you.
>
>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>
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