[Samba] smbstatus shows no hostnames (3.5.1)

[Günter Kukkukk]

Am Freitag 16 April 2010 06:01:06 schrieb Günter Kukkukk:
> Am Mittwoch 24 März 2010 20:06:41 schrieb Volker Lendecke:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:51:50PM +0100, christoph.beyer at desy.de wrote:
> > > while debugging I observed something 'new' the name resolution works
> > > fine on the samba server as long as I browse the server 'directly' on
> > > the windows host (\\printserver)
> > >
> > > It is not working when I look into a printerqueue etc on the windows
> > > host, this goes along whith what I see in my working environment, a
> > > couple of hostnames get resolved but very few.
> > >
> > > So you can find to debug logfiles here, one with working name
> > > resolution and one without working name resolution:
> > >
> > > https://www.desy.de/~chbeyer/public/smbd_log_d10_working.tar
> > >
> > > https://www.desy.de/~chbeyer/public/smbd_log_d10.tar
> > >
> > > Thansk for the support !
> >
> > Compared the logs, I don't see any difference in the
> > relevant pieces of them. I'm lost at this point.  Someone
> > with Samba knowledge needs to look at the box itself.
> >
> > Sorry,
> >
> > Volker
> 
> I assume "hostname lookups = Yes" is set in smb.conf
> 
> During the last months i was also wondering about smbstatus output
> regarding hostnames or simple IPs - i had the impression that somewhat
> randomly some hostnames were not shown anymore, only their IP addresses.
> 
> I'm often running/testing very different samba versions - and the
>  (different) output of smbstatus didn't hit my interest/attention at all.
> 
> I'm now doing some further tests on the git master branch.
> smbstatus e.g. relies on info stored in "sessionid.tdb" and
>  "connections.tdb" ... , and the DNS related entries seem to be not
>  properly collected and/or passed over to the calling function (inside the
>  server).
> 
> smbstatus just displays what the server previously has collected...
> 
> Cheers, Günter
> 

did a lot of debugging and testing (using a recent samba git master branch).
I was not able to catch any misbehavior regarding samba's (reverse) DNS lookup.

More info is needed ...

Cheers, Günter