Nigel Spowage
1998-Jan-15 11:37 UTC
Not Really a samba question, but any help would be most appreciated
I know this isn't a question about samba, but it is a problem with microsoft workgroups/domains which people on this list may be able to solve, or at least throw a little light on why it happens. the setup: 1 x NTRigue box (windows NT sever 3.51) 1 x NT 4 workstation some win 95 machines 1 x sun ultra running samba 1.9.18 none of the machines are using wins all the windows machines (and samba) are in workgroup called GTLEEDS. the problem: every 15 minutes the NTrigue box attempts to resolve the name of the workgroup into a machine IP address. according to the debug file from the DNS it receives a request to resolve GTLEEDS from the NTrigue box. because we do not have a machine called GTLEEDS in our domain, our DNS asks it's master DNS if it knows. this query opens a dial up line because our master DNS is on another site. we would like to stop this name resolution so our dialup line isn't continually opened over and over again. i understand that the domain master browser attempts to contact all the master browsers to get an up to date list of servers in the domain, is this what is happening ? I think the NTrigue box wins the election for domain master, but why is it resolving the workgroup name ? would creating a wins server solve this in any way ? currently our only fudge for this problem is to add a GTLEEDS host name to our local DNS so that it resolves the name and therefore dosn't need to call the master DNS. If there's a solution using samba then that would be ideal. thanks in advance for any help nigel spowage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nigel Spowage Tel : +44 (0) 113 224 5720 Graham Technology Fax : +44 (0) 113 243 3018 leeds,UK e-mail: nigel.spowage@gtnet.com