samba - Dec 2003 - Wins registration vanishes

Has anyone seen this yet?

I am having a problem with the my WINS entry for my Samba server disappearing
from the WINS
database.  After this takes place I am no longer able to access my Samba server
so I am forced to
restart NMBD and a new entry is placed in the WINS database.  Although over time
this entry will
vanish again and I have to repeat the restart process.  I am aware that I can
add a static entry
into my WINS database for this but I don't think this is the correct fix and
would like to know why
this is happening.  I have come across this issue on several occasions in the
past does anybody else
have this problem.

Regards

Neal Giger
ngiger@hypercom.com
Unix Administrator

Hypercom Corp.
www.hypercom.com

Neal,

You do not give much information to go on. Let me try my crystal ball
again. ... Hmmm. ... Well, I guess you are running a version of
Samba-2.2.x that is between 2.2.0 and 2.2.6. If that is the case, you
really should update to at least 2.2.8a. We fixed a specific WINS bug a
long time ago (well it seems a long time ago - at least 1 year back).

Do let me know how my crystall ball is going. :)

Cheers,
John T.


On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Neal Giger wrote:
> Has anyone seen this yet?
>
> I am having a problem with the my WINS entry for my Samba server
disappearing from the WINS
> database.  After this takes place I am no longer able to access my Samba
server so I am forced to
> restart NMBD and a new entry is placed in the WINS database.  Although over
time this entry will
> vanish again and I have to repeat the restart process.  I am aware that I
can add a static entry
> into my WINS database for this but I don't think this is the correct
fix and would like to know why
> this is happening.  I have come across this issue on several occasions in
the past does anybody else
> have this problem.
>
> Regards
>
> Neal Giger
> ngiger@hypercom.com
> Unix Administrator
>
> Hypercom Corp.
> www.hypercom.com
>
>
>
>
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org