[Samba] Browing in Samba4 AD domain

[mathias dufresne]

I would say you need nmbd for browsing...

2016-04-19 14:16 GMT+02:00 Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1 at gmail.com>:

> Hello guys, Rowland :)
>
> I recently had the opportunity to configure a Samba 3.x server which
> acts as a WIN server. For testing purposes only, I've configured a
> group of 4 Windows machines to use my Samba 3.x host as WINS server
> but unfortunately those 4 hosts were not able to see each other in the
> windows browsing list. I might guess WINS is only providing NetBIOS
> name resolution but no machine browsing feature. Am I right?
>
> Thanks you all for your help
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks again Rowland. It isn't 100% clear to me yet, hehe :p, but it's
> time
> > for testing, debugging and posting with my results.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 01/04/16 19:51, Jason Voorhees wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If AD domains are based on DNS and WINS relies on NetBIOS, what
> >>> protocol(s) are used by computers to create and see (browse) all the
> >>> machines of the domain?
> >>
> >>
> >> As far as Samba is concerned it uses both, DNS & NetBIOS, but instead of
> >> using WINS, it uses DNS to find the machines and then 'nmbd' produces
> the
> >> browsing list (this is how I understand it works)
> >>
> >> I have two DCs and a domain member running as a server, I do not uses
> WINS
> >> (well not as a setting in smb.conf) but the other Linux machines
> (including
> >> the member server) show up if I browse the network, the two DCs do not.
> >>
> >> This is down to the 'nbt' portion of the 'samba' daemon not having the
> >> required code to browse the network. You should also be aware that you
> >> cannot run 'nmbd' on a DC, it will conflict with 'nbt'
> >>
> >> Rowland
> >>
> >>>
> >>> While it's clear to me that a hostname will resolve to an IP address
> >>> through DNS queries, I'm not sure how is the browsing list created and
> >>> maintained. In old NT style domain, any computer of the domain could be
> >>> selected to act as a master browser, and the use of WINS could just
> simplify
> >>> this by having all the machines registered to the WINS server based on
> >>> NetBIOS names.
> >>>
> >>> So now in a Samba4 AD domain, does it make sense the concept of master
> >>> browser yet? Who maintains a browsing list? If any, how is this
> browsing
> >>> list maintained? is it based on NetBIOS or DNS or both? I'm asking this
> >>> because regardless of the fact that I have 2 Samba4 AD controllers
> without
> >>> browsing features built-in, I am still being able to see certain
> machines in
> >>> my network. So I guess "someone" is in keeping some kind of browsing
> list
> >>> active.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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