[Samba] smbstatus issue in v4.1

[Mark Nienberg]

Sorry I should have said in my original post, this server is a NT4 style
domain server.

Looking in /var/log/samba I see log files with the machine names in the
file names, so samba definitely knows the machine names.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Ricky Nance <ricky.nance at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mark, I think (and I may be wrong here, so if a dev sees this correct me)
> smbstatus works with sockets. With that being said, I don't think it has
> been updated to work with samba as an AD DC, but should still work fine on
> other configurations (member server, legacy DC, etc). If you are running
> with a non ad dc config, let us know, there may be a bug there.
>
> Ricky
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Mark Nienberg <
> mnlists at tippingstructural.com> wrote:
>
>> In Samba 4.1 I get the following output for smbstatus:
>> Samba version 4.1.1
>>
>> PID       Username      Group         Machine
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 2482      john          Everyone      10.0.0.109   (ipv4:10.0.0.109:49178
>> )
>> 7364      george        Everyone      10.0.0.60    (ipv4:10.0.0.60:49232)
>>
>>
>> In Samba 3.6 it was like this:
>> Samba version 3.6.24
>>
>> PID       Username      Group         Machine
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 15102     paul          Everyone      ath64x2-5400-1 (192.168.254.177)
>> 13245     ringo         Everyone      i7x4-42g-1   (192.168.254.193)
>>
>>
>> You can see that in 4.1 the Machine column gives me the ip address instead
>> of the actual machine name. I use this information in various scripts and
>> I
>> would like to have the machine name back again.
>>
>> Is this a configuration issue on my part or a problem with smbstatus?
>>
>> Mark
>>
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