samba - Aug 1998 - Which IP adresses are registered when having mutliple interfaces

Hi!

I'm running Samba 1.9.18p7 on a machine with two interfaces, so I
configured:

    ; multiple interfaces
    interfaces =x.y.z.7/255.255.0.0 a.b.c.d/255.255.0.0
    ; paranoia setting: to be REALLY sure which host name samba uses as NETBIOS
name
    netbios name = XYZ001

This one has to register with a WINS server on one of the nets, so I configured:

    ; be a WINS client
    wins support = no
    ; this on is the WINS server
    wins server = x.y.z.1

The machine is acting as some kind of firewall, so IP forwarding is switched off
in the
kernel.

Today the people in network x.y reported they could no longer reach the samba
server
XYZ001, not even ping it. They all have their PCs configured to resolve names
from WINS
server x.y.z.1 and only use the name XYZ001 and never its IP address x.y.z.7.

Further investigations showed that WINS server x.y.z.1 "knew" XYZ001
to have IP address
a.b.c.d and not the expected one (x.y.z.7). So somehow the WINS server learned
the address
of the secondary NIC which noone in network x.y is able to reach. The workaround
was to
make a static entry in the WINS server for XYZ001 with the correct IP address.

Does anyone has a clue where this situation could have been coming from? Until
yet this
samba server ran perfectly smooth ...

Which interface address does nmbd use to register with a WINS server when
configured to be
a WINS client? I have not been able to find something pointing me to a specific
direction
when browsing through the sources.

TIA,
    Robert


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