[Samba] Samba WINS Questions

[Vincent Fonteneau]

Hi,

First, I know about public IP addresses 193 and 194, i'm just using it 
for tests before the final solution

Then adding static entries in the wins.dat file is possible of course 
it's discribe in the samba's doc. By the way when you configure samba 
PDC and BDC with Wins server and Wins client, the wins.dat goes 
automaticaly with the line 2 and 3 of BDC1 wins.dat. I know then this is 
samba which done it.

The problem come from the architecture. I've many sites which need Wins 
server localy 'cause of windows's softs. When configuring smb.conf and 
running smbd/nmbd then DBC are unable to join the DMB. I finaly goes 
with BDC which are subnet LMB but unable to send netbios informations to 
synchronize Wins. This could be verify by looking at the moment in 
wins.dat BDC server. I can see my BDC as domain controleur for the 
subnet but no information about PDC and setting log level = 9 show in 
log.nmbd : DMB UNKNOW...

Maybe it possible that i've missed something in Wins proccesses

I'm going to investiguate one more time

thank for help

Vincent

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Vincent Fonteneau wrote:
>
>> Finaly WINS problem solved,
>
>
> I'm not so sure.  The WINS server is supposed to maintain a
> dynamic database that is updated every time some NetBIOS names
> are registered or deregistered on the network.  Just stuffing
> data into the databases like that isn't likely to really
> work properly.
>
>> WINS replication is used (but I don't know if I can use the 
>> expression "replication") by entering new parameters in 
>> /var/lib/samba/wins.dat before starting smb daemon
>>
>> on BDC1 the wins.dat should goes with :
>> "MYDOMAIN#00" 1151663528 255.255.255.255 e4R
>> "MYDOMAIN#1b" 1151589720 192.168.2.71 64R
>> "MYDOMAIN#1c" 1151663528 192.168.2.71 193.168.2.71 e4R
>> "MYDOMAIN#1e" 1151663528 255.255.255.255 e4R
>> "MYPDC#00" 1151589720 192.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYPDC#03" 1151589720 192.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYPDC#20" 1151589720 192.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC1#00" 1151663528 193.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC1#03" 1151663528 193.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC1#20" 1151663528 193.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC2#00" 1151663528 194.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC2#03" 1151663528 194.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC2#20" 1151663528 194.168.2.71 66R
>>
>> on PDC the wins.dat should goes with :
>> "MYDOMAIN#00" 1151663528 255.255.255.255 e4R
>> "MYDOMAIN#1b" 1151589720 192.168.2.71 64R
>> "MYDOMAIN#1c" 1151663528 192.168.2.71 193.168.2.71 194.168.2.71 e4R
>> "MYDOMAIN#1e" 1151663528 255.255.255.255 e4R
>> "MYPDC#00" 1151589720 192.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYPDC#03" 1151589720 192.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYPDC#20" 1151589720 192.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC1#00" 1151663528 193.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC1#03" 1151663528 193.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC1#20" 1151663528 193.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC2#00" 1151663528 194.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC2#03" 1151663528 194.168.2.71 66R
>> "MYBDC2#20" 1151663528 194.168.2.71 66R
>
>
> That should be pretty good until Thu Jun 29 14:02:00 2006 (UTC)
> when the entries with the timestamp 1151589720 will expire.
> If you're going to hardcode data into WINS, at least read the
> documentation on how to do that:
>
>     http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2554221 
>
>
> Of course, I still recommend that you don't try to force
> software to do replication when it wasn't designed to do that.
>
>   - Logan