samba - Jul 1998 - W95 and Dial up Networking

I have looked and lurked among windows users, but no one seems to know the
answer -- so I thought I'd ask the UNIX users :)

What exactly is going on when a W95 machine "Logs into the network" if
there are no PDC's, BDC, or NT domains at all?

I have a pc that I'm trying to dial into the home office with (Samba server
on sunOS, WINS support, the whole deal) it will log in successfully the
first time -- you can see shares, net neighborhood, no prob. then
disconnect -- and try to reconnect, and the dial in dialog hangs at
"Logging into network" for a while, and no more net neighbors.

I thought maybe it was DNS resolution of the WINS address, but that's
turned off in the registry.  baffling.  should I configure my samba server
to support domain logons?


Harry

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Harry Ford wrote:
> I have a pc that I'm trying to dial into the home office with (Samba
server
> on sunOS, WINS support, the whole deal) it will log in successfully the
> first time -- you can see shares, net neighborhood, no prob. then
> disconnect -- and try to reconnect, and the dial in dialog hangs at
> "Logging into network" for a while, and no more net neighbors.
> 
> I thought maybe it was DNS resolution of the WINS address, but that's
> turned off in the registry.  baffling.  should I configure my samba server
> to support domain logons?
I'm only guessing here, but I suspect you are striking trouble with
caching of netBIOS names. Do you have dynamic IP assigned to your dialup
lines? In other words, are you trying to reconnect with the same name, but
a different IP address? I don't know whether the WINS function of nmbd has
any option to purge names, but you might think about running something
when the dialup connection is broken to purge the WINS database. If you
are running the Open Source PPP (Paul MacKerras, from the same University
as samba), then you might be able to put something appropriate in the
ip-down script.

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