samba - Oct 1997 - WINS problems - 1.9.17p1 and p2 (fwd)

According to ivan@wadsworth.org:

|>I get the following message (and the PC's cannot browse the network -
and
|>samba is compiled with DES support).
|>
|>WINS server did not respond to name registration!
|>
|>My smb.conf has:
|>
|>   status = yes
|>   security = user
|>   os level = 33
|>   workgroup = CMB
|>   encrypt passwords = yes
|>   preferred master = yes
|>   domain master = yes 
|>   domain logons = yes
|>   logon script = %U.bat
|>   wins support = yes
|>   share modes  = yes
|>

That's odd, since samba *is* the WINS server.  I'm seeing the same
errors here (in log.nmb at debuglevel 1), and samba is the WINS
server here also!  This is with Samba version 1.9.17p2.

Unfortunately the message occurs in two places in nameresp.c:
They're both inside a "switch (n->state)" in the function
dead_netbios_entry().  One is "case NAME_REGISTER", and the other
"case NAME_REGISTER_CHALLENGE".

Is there an identity crisis here? :-)

Jim
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|>On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Ivan Auger wrote:
|>
|>> I get the following message (and the PC's cannot browse the
network - and
|>> samba is compiled with DES support).
|>> 
|>> WINS server did not respond to name registration!

To which Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton replied...

|>you shouldn't get this unless you have "wins server =
x.x.x.x".

The only line in our smb.conf relating to wins is:

    wins support = yes

And still we're getting that message!

Jim
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