[Samba] samba 4.4rcx WINS nsswitch module

Mueller mueller at tropenklinik.de
Tue Mar 22 09:07:45 UTC 2016


If you need an old fashioned wins server just acting as an microsoft wins server with push and pull

http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/ -->samba4wins

I did run it for years without any issue.

Greetings
Daniel


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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: L.P.H. van Belle [mailto:belle at bazuin.nl] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. März 2016 09:43
An: samba at lists.samba.org
Betreff: Re: [Samba] samba 4.4rcx WINS nsswitch module

Just a suggestion. 

Man nsswitch.conf
Look for wins... 

And you see that "wins" is not supported anymore in nsswitch.conf


Greetz, 

Louis


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Rowland penny
> Verzonden: dinsdag 22 maart 2016 9:13
> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] samba 4.4rcx WINS nsswitch module
> 
> On 22/03/16 07:56, bar???? tombul wrote:
> > WINS nsswitch module
> > --------------------
> >
> > The WINS nsswitch module has been rewritten to address memory issues 
> > and
> to
> > simplify the code. The module now uses libwbclient to do WINS queries.
> This
> > means that winbind needs to be running in order to resolve WINS 
> > names
> using
> > the nss_wins module. This does not affect smbd.
> >
> >
> >
> > my problem:
> >
> > old versions >>   ping google.com >>  PING google.com (216.58.212.14)
> > 56(84) bytes of data.
> >
> > samba 4.4.rcx >> ping google.com  >> Segmentation fault
> >
> >
> > I found the problem..
> >
> > /etc/nsswitch.conf
> >
> > edit:
> >
> > #hosts:      files wins dns
> > hosts:      files dns
> >
> >
> > ""wins"" delete it works .. but it works in older versions...
> >
> > best regards
> 
> Sorry, but for me on 4.4.0rc5, having 'wins' in the hosts line has no 
> affect, it still works:
> 
>   ping -c1 google.com
> PING google.com (31.55.167.152) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 31.55.167.152: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=10.4 ms
> 
> --- google.com ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt 
> min/avg/max/mdev = 10.401/10.401/10.401/0.000 ms
> 
> What it does say (well, to me), is that you probably don't need to be 
> using 'wins' anyway. You are getting dns resolved without wins, unless 
> it doesn't work for your internal network. It may help if you were 
> tell us how you are running Samba.
> 
> Rowland
> 
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