[Samba] Re: WINS over subnets

[Hoggins!]

Edmundo Valle Neto a écrit :
> Hoggins! escreveu:
> 
> Yes, in that case it should maintain a more complete list. And yes you 
> just must have ONE WINS server.
> I think you didnt got the point, domain master, local master, domain 
> controllers, wins server, etc are just roles of the same server, 
> enabling some options in smb.conf the same server can be all of them at 
> the same time.
> BUT, other subnets need local master browsers too, they can be any 
> Windows workstation (normally you should not worry about that), this is 
> one of the reasons that all of them must use the same single WINS server 
> (I am not saying that yours are not), the LMB can be any available 
> workstation (the machines in the subnet should elect one automatically), 
> so any machine ending up beeing a LMB will use the  same WINS server to 
> find the DMB and sync. It works that way without you needing to care 
> about it.
> 
> 
> Ok, if the wireless clients can see each others probably that segment 
> has an LMB with the browse list of that segment but just isnt passing it 
> to the samba server.
> About the LMBs I just said that to make it clear, that the other 
> networks dont register themselves directly with samba to be included in 
> the browse.dat file, who does that is the LMB of that segment (as 
> explained before).

Thanks, I understand better now how it works.
So the LMB (any Win machine, elected) of the 192.168.3.0/24 segment must 
send its browse list to the server, right ? I must check this traffic 
with ethereal and/or with debug level 2. Sorry I didn't yet.

> Yes, it is possible and most of the times the recommended way.
> 
> 
> Theres some tools and comands to see problems with name resolution on 
> the XP clients, like nbtstat or the netbios browsing console.
> 
> Putting a log level of 2 in smb.conf, is there any interesting 
> information about elections in the nmbd log? Whould help if you include 
> your smb.conf here too.

Yes, I put debug level to 2, and I saw that the server was always 
elected as the master. And also that the machines successfully 
registered to the server.
My smb.conf (a bit modified since my first post, but the symptoms are 
the same though) :

[global]
	display charset = ASCII
	workgroup = BOUFFARD
	netbios aliases = hgsserver
	server string = PARTAGES
	interfaces = eth0
	security = SHARE
	map to guest = Bad User
	root directory = /
	pam password change = Yes
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
	passwd chat debug = Yes
	username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
	unix password sync = Yes
#	log level = 2
#	syslog = 3
#	syslog only = Yes
	log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
	max log size = 50
	debug timestamp = No
	time server = Yes
	server signing = auto
	socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
	printcap name = /etc/printcap
	os level = 32
	lm announce = Yes
	preferred master = Yes
	domain master = Yes
	local master = no
	dns proxy = No
	wins support = Yes
	ldap ssl = no
	remote announce = 192.168.3.255/BOUFFARD
	remote browse sync = 192.168.3.255 224.0.0.1
	usershare path =
	winbind enum users = Yes
	winbind enum groups = Yes
	winbind use default domain = Yes
	guest ok = Yes
	hosts allow = 192.168.2.0/24, 192.168.3.0/24
	cups options = raw

[...] (some shares declarations)

I'll come with more results on benchmarks ASAP. Thanks for your help and 
patience.

Regards,

	Hoggins!