samba - Sep 1999 - dynamic dns updates from WINS

I've just added the ability for nmbd to call an external program when
changes happen to the WINS database in a Samba WINS server. See the
option "wins hook" in Samba 2.0.6 when it is released. An example
script that calls the nsupdate dynamic DNS update program is provided.

Hopefully this will be useful for sites that want their dynamic
windows boxes to show up in DNS.

Cheers, Tridge

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 23:28:34 +1000, hai scritto:
>I've just added the ability for nmbd to call an external program when
>changes happen to the WINS database in a Samba WINS server. See the
>option "wins hook" in Samba 2.0.6 when it is released. An example
>script that calls the nsupdate dynamic DNS update program is provided.
Some time ago I tried to do something (shell script ...) to update dns
with wins.dat database, but I gave up because I couldn't find a way to
correctly idetify hostnames in wins.dat: I looked for 20 and 03 but in
my wins.dat I have entry for 20 (server) which are not hostnames, they
are login names (the login names are aco and go, don't know what c-9999
means):
"C-9999ACO#20" 939102328
"C-9999GO#20" 939106792
and 03 names that are login names too.
00 is used for the workgroup name too.

I see in the example update script in 2.0.6 that 00 03 20 are considered
good names, so even using wins-hook, with the example update script or a
personalized one, I would get dns entries for login names?.

Is there a way to identify real hostname?

Thanks.

-- 
giulioo@tiscalinet.it

> I see in the example update script in 2.0.6 that 00 03 20 are considered
> good names, so even using wins-hook, with the example update script or a
> personalized one, I would get dns entries for login names?.
>
> Is there a way to identify real hostname?
real netbios hostnames are type 0 and type 20. Type 3 is
usernames. The examples script includes those as we wanted ot be able
to do "ping tridge.wins"

you can edit the script to exclude type 3 if you want to.