[Samba] WINS Server TIme out registering IP

[Mike Brady]

Quoting TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at monyo.com>:

> 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'".
>
> ---
> TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at monyo.com>
>

"bind interfaces only = yes" is not set.

iptables has no rules loaded.
# iptables -L -v -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 113M packets, 26G bytes)
  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source                
destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source                
destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 82M packets, 112G bytes)
  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source                
destination


# netstat -an | egrep '13[789]|445'
tcp        0      0 :::139                      :::*                    
      LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::445                      :::*                    
      LISTEN
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:172.17.1.50:445       
::ffff:172.17.1.49:51292    ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:172.17.1.50:445       
::ffff:172.17.1.88:1040     ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:172.17.1.50:139       
::ffff:192.168.4.32:1854    ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:172.17.1.50:22        
::ffff:172.17.7.6:53137     ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:172.17.1.50:445       
::ffff:172.17.1.199:3387    ESTABLISHED
udp        0      0 172.17.1.255:137            0.0.0.0:*
udp        0      0 172.17.1.50:137             0.0.0.0:*
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:137                 0.0.0.0:*
udp        0      0 172.17.1.255:138            0.0.0.0:*
udp        0      0 172.17.1.50:138             0.0.0.0:*
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:138                 0.0.0.0:*
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    283445


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