samba - Dec 2002 - SuperSlow Browsing

Hi!

I've set up a Samba-Server with WINS which should enhance networking 
around here. The situation is fairly simple:

- Around 90 Student-PC's
- Everything is in the net 10.1.2.0 / 255.255.255.0

Till now everything worked more or less well without WINS (so the 
DHCP-Server just assigned IP/Gateway/DNS).
Now I installed a samba machine and activated WINS-Server. The IP of 
the WINS Server is assigned through the DHCP:

option netbios-name-servers 10.1.2.15;
option netbios-node-type 2;

The WINS-Server seems to work perfectly (wins.dat and browse.dat are 
filled and correct), but when I start browsing through my Network 
Neighbourhood in XP I have to wait up to 30s till I see the machines in 
a certain workgroup. (and system is standing still....)

these are the essential parts from smb.conf:

# vorrangregelungen
         local master = yes
         domain master = yes
         preferred master = yes
         wins support = yes
#       wins proxy = yes
#       dns proxy = yes

of course workgroup is set.

Please Help if you can! (I'm already working on this since 2 days....)

--Dominik Wagenknecht
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On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Dominik Wagenknecht wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've set up a Samba-Server with WINS which should enhance networking
> around here. The situation is fairly simple:
>
> - Around 90 Student-PC's
> - Everything is in the net 10.1.2.0 / 255.255.255.0
>
> Till now everything worked more or less well without WINS (so the
> DHCP-Server just assigned IP/Gateway/DNS).
> Now I installed a samba machine and activated WINS-Server. The IP of
> the WINS Server is assigned through the DHCP:
>
> option netbios-name-servers 10.1.2.15;
> option netbios-node-type 2;
No way! You want netbios-node-type 8

By saying type 2, you are telling your MS Windows clients to ignore WINS!
You told them to use Broadcast based name resolution.

- John T.
>
> The WINS-Server seems to work perfectly (wins.dat and browse.dat are
> filled and correct), but when I start browsing through my Network
> Neighbourhood in XP I have to wait up to 30s till I see the machines in
> a certain workgroup. (and system is standing still....)
>
> these are the essential parts from smb.conf:
>
> # vorrangregelungen
>          local master = yes
>          domain master = yes
>          preferred master = yes
>          wins support = yes
> #       wins proxy = yes
> #       dns proxy = yes
>
> of course workgroup is set.
>
> Please Help if you can! (I'm already working on this since 2 days....)
>
> --Dominik Wagenknecht
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org

At 00:56 08.12.2002, John H Terpstra wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Dominik Wagenknecht wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've set up a Samba-Server with WINS which should enhance
networking
> > around here. The situation is fairly simple:
> >
> > - Around 90 Student-PC's
> > - Everything is in the net 10.1.2.0 / 255.255.255.0
> >
> > Till now everything worked more or less well without WINS (so the
> > DHCP-Server just assigned IP/Gateway/DNS).
> > Now I installed a samba machine and activated WINS-Server. The IP of
> > the WINS Server is assigned through the DHCP:
> >
> > option netbios-name-servers 10.1.2.15;
> > option netbios-node-type 2;
>
>No way! You want netbios-node-type 8
>
>By saying type 2, you are telling your MS Windows clients to ignore WINS!
>You told them to use Broadcast based name resolution.
Well, unless all the docs are wrong, you are wrong here, or? 2==P-Node 
which means WINS only, whereas 8==H-Node meaning WINS first then broadcast. 
And the ISC DHCPD FAQ explicitly recommends using P-Node, which seems 
logical to me as one doesn't want unnecessary broadcasts if there is a WINS 
server around.

Do you have any arguments for using 8==H-Node?

Franz.