[Samba] samber server in openvz container - venet oder veth0?

[Birgit Berger (UV Wien)]

thank you Johannes. no, I don't really need WINS but it was the only way I
could join clients to the domain so far. so I activated it. DNS should be
available and working too.

/etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this:
hosts: files dns

Can I use venet with samba or should I change to veth? 

regards, birgit



Johannes Truschnigg <johannes at truschnigg.info> schreibt:
>Hi Birgit,
>
>On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:38:32PM +0200, Birgit Berger (UV Wien) wrote:
>> I'm new to the list. hopefully my question is correctly placed here...
>> 
>> I'd installed my samba server 3.5.6 on debian squeeze in a openvz
>> container that uses venet. I'd love to keep it that way but I'm not sure
>> if that is ok. Do you use samba server with venet or do I have to change
>> to veth?
>> 
>> I already read http://wiki.openvz.org/Differences_between_venet_and_veth
>> and I don't want to intall shorewall in every container (VE). Also venet
>> seems easier to administrate and is faster.
>> 
>> I read
>>
>http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html
>> and nmblookup (chapters 4,5,6 and 10) doesn't work. This is because of
>> venet, I suppose. Because with venet broadcasting doesn't work. But do I
>> really need it for the Samba server or can I just use DNS (on other
>> servers than the samba server) and WINS server (on the samba server)?
>Can
>> I stick to venet or should I use veth?
>
>Do you have clients on the network that you know absolutely require WINS
>for
>resolving names? (I'd actually have a hard time believing that, but who
>knows...) Other than that, not having WINS but DNS as its modern and
>sensible
>replacement in working condition should be perfectly sufficient for your
>day
>to day Samba (and other networking) needs. I've been running Samba without
>nmbd enabled for a few years now (with Windows XP, Windows 7 and
>GNU/Linux as
>clients) and did not run into any problems becasue of that.
>
>Grüße aus und nach Wien ;)
>
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