[Samba] Samba BDC does not register in WINS as BDC

[Gaiseric Vandal]

I have the following


     PDC:  Samba 3.0.37 on Solaris 10
     BDC1: Samba 3.0.37 on Solaris 10




PDC is configured to be the WINS server for everything, including XP Pro 
clients and other Samba machines.



PDC# testparm -v | grep master
Load smb config files from /etc/sfw/smb.conf
...
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC
...
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

         preferred master = Yes
         local master = Yes
         domain master = Yes
PDC#




BDC1# testparm -v | grep master

Load smb config files from /etc/sfw/smb.conf
...
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_BDC
...
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
         preferred master = No
         local master = No
         domain master = No
BDC1#


I accidentally have BDC1 "local master = yes" initially but fixed that.  
I have not since restart smbd or nmbd on either machine.

On a windows machine, in the network neigborhood, I can rt click on both 
PDC and BDC1, and select properties and verify that the machine is 
showing as a Primary or Backup.

However, nbtstat on XP and nmblookup on Solaris do NOT show BDC1 as a 
domain controller.  Specifially I am looking for
     "MYDOMAIN <1c>  BDC1", to indicate that BDC1 is a domain controller.


PDC# nmblookup -A PDC
Looking up status of .....
...

         ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
         MYDOMAIN <1c> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
         MYDOMAIN <00> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
         MYDOMAIN <1d> -         H <ACTIVE>
         MYDOMAIN <1e> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
         MYDOMAIN <1b> -         H <ACTIVE>

         MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00



PDC# nmblookup -A  BDC1


Socket opened.
Looking up status of ...
         BDC1 <00> -         H <ACTIVE>
         BDC1 <03> -         H <ACTIVE>
         BDC1 <20> -         H <ACTIVE>
         MYDOMAIN <00> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
         MYDOMAIN <1e> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>

         MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00


As expected, the PDC shows up a domain controller and the primary domain 
controller ("<1b>.")


Nbstat under XP gives similar results.


The samba how-to documentation indicates that XP clients should choose a 
bdc  in preference to the pdc, which they never do.    Presumably if I 
shut down my PDC, XP clients will not be able to login to the network.


I am not sure whether wins.tdb is generated from wins.dat or vice 
versa.    If I delete BDC1 from wins.dat, the file will shortly be 
automatically recreated with the missing entries restored.

I don't know if I can or should add a static entry in WINS.DAT.  It 
would seem unnecessary since BDC1 is a WINS client of PDC.


Thanks