[Samba] samba4wins - all ok but how to use nmblookup from my PDC?

[Pablo Chamorro C.]

> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 09:07 -0500, Pablo Chamorro C. wrote:
>> I installed samba4wins on two of my Fedora Core 3 servers (from src rpm),
>> on one PDC (samba 3.0.21c) and on one standalone server without samba, in
>> order to test samba4wins.  I think I managed to install and to setup
>> properly the software but it seems nmblookup is not working on the PDC
>> samba:
>>
>> [user]$ nmblookup '*'
>> querying * on 192.168.19.255
>> name_query failed to find name *
>
> Are you there is no firewall software blocking answers to the request ?

sorry for my delayed answer, no, I don't have any firewall on the LAN 
where I installed samba4wins.

>>> From any other linux, including the standalone machine nmblookup '*'
>> works. I followed the instructions given on samba4wins-1.0.1-HOWTO.txt.
>>
>> On the other side, I am having similar samba4wins records both for user
>> machines and for users!  Is this ok? Please look below.
>
> Yes, workstations register the username with Netbios to be able, for
> example, to receive messages directed to a username. This is also why
> you should never name a workstation after the username, you may end up
> in conflicts.

ok, I think I understand that, but the samba4wins records not only include 
machine names' records but also user names' records, e.g. for the next 
two, RICHARD (record 12, type 0x03) is an user and galeras is a machine 
(record 18, type 0x03):

# record 12
dn: name=RMIER,type=0x03
distinguishedName: name=RMIER,type=0x03
type: 0x03
name: RMIER
objectClass: winsRecord
recordType: 0
recordState: 0
nodeType: 0
isStatic: 0
expireTime: 20060313052429.0Z
versionID: 17
winsOwner: 192.168.19.109
address: 
192.168.19.1;winsOwner:192.168.19.109;expireTime:20060313052429.0Z;
registeredBy: 192.168.19.1

# record 13
dn: name=GALERAS,type=0x20
distinguishedName: name=GALERAS,type=0x20
type: 0x20
name: GALERAS
objectClass: winsRecord
recordType: 0
recordState: 0
nodeType: 0
isStatic: 0
expireTime: 20060313052417.0Z
versionID: 15
winsOwner: 192.168.19.109
address: 
192.168.19.1;winsOwner:192.168.19.109;expireTime:20060313052417.0Z;
registeredBy: 192.168.19.1

# record 18
dn: name=GALERAS,type=0x03
distinguishedName: name=GALERAS,type=0x03
type: 0x03
name: GALERAS
objectClass: winsRecord
recordType: 0
recordState: 0
nodeType: 0
isStatic: 0
expireTime: 20060313052416.0Z
versionID: 14
winsOwner: 192.168.19.109
address: 
192.168.19.1;winsOwner:192.168.19.109;expireTime:20060313052416.0Z;
registeredBy: 192.168.19.1

>> 2. in the linux without samba: eth0: 192.168.19.7 ("standalone") and for
>> samba4wins: 192.168.19.107 (standalone-wins)
>>
>> [globals]
>>     netbios name = standalone-wins
>>     workgroup = group
>>     interfaces = 192.168.19.107
>>     bind interfaces only = yes
>>     log level = 4
>>     nbtd:disable_broadcast = no
>
>
> If this machine does not have samba, then you do not need to restirct
> samba4wins to an alias, you can just use the primary interface.

ok, thanks, I did it just for similarity with the wins on the PDC

> The ip alias trick is used to let samba3 run it's own nmbd daemon on the
> same address of smbd.
>
> I'd make a network trace and see if the request goes out on the wire and
> if any answer returns.

ok, i'm gonna try and to double check my setup, I have samba4wins and 
samba listening on the same ports as indicated on the howto page, 
thanks.

Pablo

>
> Simo.
>
>

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