Hi folks,
I've had a setup working for quite some time and everything's fine
except that
the server that hosts the WINS never appears in the network neighbourhood,
and when trying to connect to that server there is a small delay.
As few people need to browse to it, the problem's had a low priority as the
WINS side of it is working fine, and the rest of the nethood is also working
fine.
However, when I tried to use smbclient to connect to itself today I saw an
error message which may relate to the problem, and therefore possibly point
to a fix.
Below is the session I am talking about, followed by the basics from my
smb.conf. 10.2.1.2 is a Linux box at a remote site, running as browse master
for the Doncaster workgroup.
[root@larry cgi-bin]# smbclient //larry/pdf
added interface ip=10.1.1.101 bcast=10.1.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
wins_srv_died(): Could not mark WINS server 127.0.0.1 down.
Address not found in server list.
Password:
Domain=[LEEDS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.1a]
smb: \>
[root@larry cgi-bin]#
/etc/samba/smb.conf.
[global]
workgroup = LEEDS
server string = Networker (Larry) - was linux
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
printing = lprng
guest account = pcguest
log file = /var/log/samba/log
max log size = 0
security = share
remote browse sync = 10.2.1.255
remote announce = 10.2.255.255/DONCASTER
remote announce = 10.1.255.255/LEEDS
local master = yes
os level = 44
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
name resolve order = wins lmhosts host bcast
wins support = yes
wide links = yes
dns proxy = no
[pdf]
comment = PDF Generator
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = yes
public = yes
guest ok = yes
printable = yes
print command = /usr/bin/smbtopdf '/var/spool/samba/' '%f'
'%J' '%m'
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Gary Stainburn wrote:> Hi folks, > > I've had a setup working for quite some time and everything's fine except that > the server that hosts the WINS never appears in the network neighbourhood, > and when trying to connect to that server there is a small delay. > > As few people need to browse to it, the problem's had a low priority as the > WINS side of it is working fine, and the rest of the nethood is also working > fine. > > However, when I tried to use smbclient to connect to itself today I saw an > error message which may relate to the problem, and therefore possibly point > to a fix. > > Below is the session I am talking about, followed by the basics from my > smb.conf. 10.2.1.2 is a Linux box at a remote site, running as browse master > for the Doncaster workgroup. > > [root@larry cgi-bin]# smbclient //larry/pdf > added interface ip=10.1.1.101 bcast=10.1.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0 > wins_srv_died(): Could not mark WINS server 127.0.0.1 down. > Address not found in server list. > Password: > Domain=[LEEDS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.1a] > smb: \>Firstly, have we restarted smbd and nmbd lately? I just had an issue with cross-subnet browsing myself. You only need one WINS server for the whole WAN. I removed all the remote browse announce and remote sync statements. I picked one samba box to be the WINS server, set the other samba boxen to use it for WINS. Each site in the WAN is it's own domain so each site needs a "domain master = yes". regards, mtoal