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

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Birgit Berger (UV Wien)
<birgit.berger at oeh.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> sorry, to bother you again.
>
> I cannot join win7 or winXP clients to my samba domain sever located on a
> debian server in a VE (openvz) unless I set up the server and clients to
> use WINS. But the recommendation is not to use WINS. openvz natively uses
> venet. venet makes broadcasting impossible.
>
> I guess DNS is sufficient for name<->IP resolution but not for NetBios
> name<->IP resolution (it doesn' know name types and maybe that's why it
> cannot find DMB and logon server?) and that's why my win7 and winXP
> clients cannot join the domain.

Why don't the netbios names match the DNS names? Is your VPN not
setting your default domain names?


> So given my virtual server setup with openvz, do you rather suggest to use
> WINS or to set up veth so I can use normal broadcasting?
> Or are there other ways to do name resolution with a samba server
> installed in a VE container which I oversaw.
>
> I'm a newbie and netbios name resolution is hard to understand. so I would
> be very happy to get any suggestions from people already using samba
> server in an open vz container.... do you guys use venet or veth or do you
> just activate WINS?
>
> birgit
>
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>
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>
> 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 ;)
>>
>>--
>>with best regards:
>>- Johannes Truschnigg ( johannes at truschnigg.info )
>>
>>www:   http://johannes.truschnigg.info/
>>phone: +43 650 2 133337
>>xmpp:  johannes at truschnigg.info
>>
>>Please do not bother me with HTML-email or attachments. Thank you.
>
>
>
> Johannes Truschnigg <johannes at truschnigg.info> schreibt:
>>Hello again,
>>
>>On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 02:28:24PM +0200, Birgit Berger (UV Wien) wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>>That's fine - you don't want anything reagrding winbind or WINS in there,
>>since you don't have proper name resolution set up over that kind of
>>protocol/service.
>>
>>> Can I use venet with samba or should I change to veth?
>>
>>Just stick with what you got - vnet will be fine.
>>
>>Have a nice day!
>>
>>--
>>with best regards:
>>- Johannes Truschnigg ( johannes at truschnigg.info )
>>
>>www:   http://johannes.truschnigg.info/
>>phone: +43 650 2 133337
>>xmpp:  johannes at truschnigg.info
>>
>>Please do not bother me with HTML-email or attachments. Thank you.
>
>
>
> Birgit Berger
>
> EDV-Administratorin an der ÖH Uni Wien
>
> http://www.oeh.univie.ac.at/arbeitsbereiche/edv.html
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