[Samba] Browing in Samba4 AD domain

[Jason Voorhees]

I've found an old thread in which you were participating:

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-February/189471.html

It's more clear to me now but not at all. Since there seems to be different
code for nbt and nmbd which handle WINS replication and browsing, which
feature is what I need to setup in my MS network for properly browse all
the machines in the domain?

I would ask again, should I setup a Samba host (member of the domain) as a
WINS server which is used by all the windows computers to achieve what I
need?

Thanks again :)

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for replying. I wasn't sure about what the link tried to tell me
> but you just have confirmed it :)
>
> So, if I understood correctly, do I have to setup a WINS server in another
> member machine (let's say another Samba host) and point all my windows
> computers to such Samba as WINS server?
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On 31/03/16 05:15, Jason Voorhees wrote:
>>
>>> Hello guys:
>>>
>>> Some weeks ago I've implemented a couple of Samba4 servers. One of them
>>> running Zentyal 4.2 Development version and the other one on a Samba
>>> built
>>> from source on CentOS 7. Both are running Samba 4.3.4.
>>>
>>> There are 35 machines joined to my domain and users are complaining that
>>> they can't see all the machines in the network through the browsing
>>> feature
>>> from Windows. Sometimes only a few machines appear, then a few more
>>> appear
>>> and later dissapear some others, it seems a little erratic.
>>>
>>> I wonder if this behavior is due to what the link shown below says:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/FAQ#Why_is_Network_Neighbourhood_empty_or_does_not_show_all_machines_in_an_Samba_AD_environment.3F
>>>
>>> If true, is there a way to "fix" this problem so we can see ALL the
>>> computers joined to the domain while they're online in the MS network?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>> Hi, if you are running Samba as an AD DC, then what the link is telling
>> you is still true, there is no browsing with a Samba AD DC. You could try
>> setting up a domain member server and run the smbd, nmbd & winbind deamons,
>> this way you will get browsing.
>>
>> Rowland
>>
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