samba - Jun 2000 - WINS serving

Hi all,

I use Samba (nmbd) for WINS serving round here.

Any one know how to set up two WINS servers (on different machines for
resilience) using Samba?


Also, whislt I'm on the subject.  Suppose I have a machine with multiple
(physical) interfaces, each with a unique IP address.  When it ('s nmbd)
registers with teh WINS server does it register all its addresses?

Moreover, when the WINS server is asked for the IP address of that
machine, which one does it hand out? (DNS servers have a defined
sort-list for multi homed machines).

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why)

We run SAMBA v2.0.7 on an AIX v4.2.1 box.  As of some recent SAMBA
version, the fileservice has become extremely slow most of the
time (reasonable speed may be seen, if you're really lucky).
The transfer speed of file reads is 20-40 kBytes/sec.  
If you access the same AIX files from the same Windows client 
using FTP, you get close to media speed (10 Mbit Ethernet).  
The AIX box seems perfectly healthy, except for the speed of SAMBA.

Question:  Does anyone know a cure for improving the speed
of SAMBA on AIX 4.2.1 ?

Ole H. Nielsen
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark,

Error 1:
In lib/replace.c at line 174 there is a syntax error:
    if((grouplst = (gid_t *)malloc(sizeof(gid_t) * max_gr)) == NULL) {
            DEBUG(0,("initgroups: malloc fail !\n");                  
<===== missing right parenthesis
            return -1;
    }

just add a second closing parenthesis
            DEBUG(0,("initgroups: malloc fail !\n"));

maybe nobody is using this code?
*********************************************
Error 2:
SCO 3.2 V 4.2 has no fchmod, so I replaced in passdb/smbpass.c the line
    if(fchmod(fileno(fp), S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR) == -1) {
with
   if(chmod(pfile, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR) == -1) {

I hope it does the same thing?

I think I will try this release in a lonely hour with no people in our network!
--

Mit freundlichen Gr??en,

Dr. Walter Willmertinger

CONSYS Gesellschaft f?r Softwaretechnologie und Systementwicklung mbH
Dr. Walter Willmertinger
Landsberger Strasse 402   EMail: willmertinger@consys.de
81241 Muenchen            Phone: +49 89 580 81 81
Germany                     Fax: +49 89 588 77 6
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> 
> Date:   Mon, 05 Jun 2000 16:49:14 +0100
> From:   Andrew Welham <welhama@scc01ca.europe.nokia.com>
> To:     samba@samba.org
> Subject: inetd Hangup
> Message-ID: <393BCBFA.97BF6A1A@scc01ca.europe.nokia.com>
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> 
> Dear all  have any one seen the following errors fonud in the
> /var.adm/messages file
> 
> Every thing appears to be working ok
> but i get the following errors
> 
> Jun  5 10:41:19 ServerName inetd[194]: /opt/samba/bin/nmbd: Hangup
> Jun  5 10:41:55 ServerName last message repeated 38 times
> Jun  5 10:41:56 ServerName inetd[194]: netbios-ns/udp server failing
> (looping), service terminated
> Jun  5 10:53:27 ServerName inetd[194]: /opt/samba/bin/nmbd: Hangup
> Jun  5 10:54:05 ServerName last message repeated 38 times
> Jun  5 10:54:06 ServerName inetd[194]: netbios-ns/udp server failing
> (looping), service terminated
> Jun  5 11:05:27 ServerName inetd[194]: /opt/samba/bin/nmbd: Hangup
> Jun  5 11:05:43 ServerName last message repeated 16 times
> Jun  5 11:05:44 ServerName inetd[194]: /opt/samba/bin/nmbd: Hangup
> Jun  5 11:06:05 ServerName last message repeated 21 times
> Jun  5 11:06:06 ServerName inetd[194]: netbios-ns/udp server failing
> (looping), service terminated
> 
> The hardwars is a Sun E450 running Solaris 7 with file and print
> services, the machine is not a wins server wunning Samba 2.0.7
> 
> Many Thanks
> Andrew Welham
> 
Andrew,

I assume by this message that you are starting nmbd with inetd. This is
not
recommended for a server and this is probably why you experiencing the
hang-up
messages. I suggest you run Samba as stand alone daemons with an RC
start-up script
or similar. There is an example script that comes in the source
directory. If this
is not the case could you post any details about your config. Explicitly
any compile
time flags, smb.conf. (Also possibly your services file, I assume you
haven't 
installed Solaris PC Nettling or the like as well).

Anyway I think the first suggestion will solve your problem.

Scott.

Hi Terry,
I downloaded the 2.0.7pre-3 version to my 10.20 system, and do not have
this problem when I run configure. I am using the HP 'cc' and all
it's
updated libraries from the latest patches.  You might want to check, esp

if you are using 'cc'.  If you're using 'gcc' I'm afraid
I won't be much
help...
Thanks,
Don