[Samba] WINS doesn't work on some ip addresses in multihome setup

Harry Jede walk2sun at arcor.de
Wed Jun 27 10:00:33 MDT 2012


On 17:49:05 wrote Sebastian Suchanek:
> Hello everybody!
> 
> Still struggeling with my latest Samba setup, I've just run accross 
> another problem which I can't figure out on my own. Samba is supposed
> to  act as a WINS server (among other things) on a multihomed
> machine. (The Samba version is 3.5.1 as part of Debian Squeeze)
> 
> Here's the [global] part of the samba setup:
> 
> ----------------------------------- 8<
> ------------------------------- [global]
>     workgroup = HST
>     netbios name = Tux
>     server string = %h server
>     wins support = yes
>     interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 a.b.c.128/25 10.8.0.0/24

Do not use cdir notation with interfaces. NMBD do not like it :-( 
try:
 interfaces = lo a.b.c.128/255.255.255.128 10.8.0.0/255.255.255.255

with a & b & c as digits ;-)

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Regards
	Harry Jede


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