[Samba] WINS Server TIme out registering IP

[TAKAHASHI Motonobu]

From: Mike Brady <mike.brady at devnull.net.nz>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:59:49 +1300

> I am seeing the following messages logged every 20 min on a Centos 5.5  
> Samba 3.5.7 (SerNet RPMs) PDC.
> 
(snip)
> 
> [2011/03/11 07:45:32.336148,  2]  
> nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:192(wins_registration_timeout)
>    wins_registration_timeout: WINS server 127.0.0.1 timed out  
> registering IP 172.17.1.50

Have you set "bind interfaces only = yes"?
Or have you set firewalls to prevent nmbd listening on 127.0.0.1?

Please show the result of "netstat -an | egrep '13[789]|445'".

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at monyo.com>