samba - Dec 2002 - SAMBA hosts vanishing from WINS server running on NT4

We have a WAN with subnets and our remote SAMBA Hosts
vanish after about a month from the WINS server.
We have mixed SAMBA versions from 2.0.7 to 2.2.1a.


NT (wins)   10.1.1.1
SAMBA 1	10.1.1.2
  |
  |
  |
SAMBA 2	10.2.2.2

All SAMBA hosts are set up to use the NT WINS server
and after a SAMBA start they are there. But they 'fade away'
in time.

Is there a setting I am missing? Or do I need to schedule a 
SAMBA stop / start in cron?


Murray Taylor
Special Projects Engineer
---------------------------------
Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment
Phone: 61 3 8710 2555
Fax: 61 3 8710 2599
Direct: 61 3 9238 4275
Mobile: 61 0417 319 256
Email: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com
or visit us on the web
http://www.bytecraftsystems.com
http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com


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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Murray Taylor wrote:
> We have a WAN with subnets and our remote SAMBA Hosts
> vanish after about a month from the WINS server.
> We have mixed SAMBA versions from 2.0.7 to 2.2.1a.
Your choices are:

1) Restart nmbd occassionally (weekly or so)

2) Update to samba-2.2.7a (releases today)

This is a known problem that I believe has been closed out since 2.2.1a
and 2.0.7.

- John T.
>
>
> NT (wins)   10.1.1.1
> SAMBA 1	10.1.1.2
>   |
>   |
>   |
> SAMBA 2	10.2.2.2
>
> All SAMBA hosts are set up to use the NT WINS server
> and after a SAMBA start they are there. But they 'fade away'
> in time.
>
> Is there a setting I am missing? Or do I need to schedule a
> SAMBA stop / start in cron?
>
>
> Murray Taylor
> Special Projects Engineer
> ---------------------------------
> Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment
> Phone: 61 3 8710 2555
> Fax: 61 3 8710 2599
> Direct: 61 3 9238 4275
> Mobile: 61 0417 319 256
> Email: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com
> or visit us on the web
> http://www.bytecraftsystems.com
> http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com
>
>
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John H Terpstra
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