[Samba] samba pdc and nmbd

[Rowland Penny]

On 18/08/14 19:53, José Renato Castro Milanez wrote:
> Hello friends, how are you?
>
> I have a PDC running fine, but for security reasons my network administrator want to disable the netbios over tcp/ip.
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> My samba is a wins server and my hosts are setup for this wins server by dhcp.
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> A simple solution is just to disabled the nmbd service, but my clients were unable to logon correctly via PDC.
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> Is the nmbd service necessary for PDC remote logon?
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> Also, doing a pdbedit -Lv I saw my machines are connected by the netbios name instead of ip or fqdn. So, if I disable the nmbd service and rename all entries for ip or fqdn machine name, it will work?
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> Thanks!
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> M.Sc. José Renato Castro Milanez
> Analista de Tecnologia da Informação/TI Analist
> Diretoria de Suporte a Informática/Computer Support Direction
> Universidade Federal de Itajubá/Federal University of Itajubá
> Itajubá - Minas Gerais - Brasil
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Try putting 'disable netbios = yes' into your smb.conf, but this must be 
a first, somebody who doesn't want network browsing ;-)

Rowland