[Samba] Static entries NOT working (Debian, Ubuntu)

[Chris Smith]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:24 PM, thomas <t.macaigne at beware.fr> wrote:
> Are you sure this is working ?
> I tried it and it doesnt.

Yes, I have static entries that are still there from months ago.

> I have winbind installed and can findsmb / smbtree .
> pinging the NetBIOS names found by previous commandes works.
> pinging the ones I added manually doesn't.
>
> I also tried copy/pasting entries and just changing the IP with no success
>
> Even the entries with TTL set to zero are overwritten when restarting SAMBA.

I think any entry will get over written if a client registers that
same name. I'm using the entries for things like WPAD and ISATAP.
You can't force an IP address with WINS.