[Samba] Samba can't find its hostname via broadcast

[Atrox]

Michael Lueck wrote:
> 
> Atrox wrote:
>> Samba can't find its hostname via nmblookup:
>> $ nmblookup -B 192.168.1.255 frontier
>> querying frontier on 192.168.1.255
>> name_query failed to find name frontier
> 
> Have you ever had another (multiple) IP addresses on this particular
> installation? Long long ago I ran into issues with a test box that had
> been known by several IP addresses over the course of time. 
> nmbd got confused and did not know the IP address of the server itself.
> 
> I flushed the wins cache on the PDC and all was well. That is...
> 
> stopped samba
> deleted /var/run/samba/wins.tdb
> started samba
> 
> In my case, it tried the oldest two IP addresses the server had been known
> as, just not the current IP address. Flushing WINS resulted in WINS being
> rediscovered, and thus the current IP address of 
> the server was detected, and "samba could find itself again!"
> 

Hmm, actually the machine runs OpenVPN too, so its (bridged) tap device has
its own IP that falls into the same netmask /24. Is it possible that Samba
may get confused about that? Should specifying only the internal interface
(and lo0 maybe) in "interfaces" help in this case?

PS. I can't try deleting the wins cache right now as Samba is in active use.
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