samba - Dec 2004 - IP address given to WINS on a server with multiple interfaces

I have a server that has one interface onto a private subnet, and
another connected to our LAN.  I found that the IP address in WINS was
the IP address of the private interface, so things weren't working.  By
using the "interfaces" setting in smb.conf I was able to force the use
of the correct IP address.

Now, I notice that the manual says, "By default Samba will query the
kernel for the list of all active interfaces and use any interfaces
except 127.0.0.1 that are broadcast capable".  Am I correct in thinking
that there can only be one IP address per server in WINS?  In which
case, which IP address does Samba report to WINS?  The first one it
finds?

To improve the chances of things working out of the box, perhaps it
would be possible to report to WINS the IP address associated with the
default route on the server?

I'm still running Samba 2.2 here (actually, HP's CIFS9000 product), so
apologies if things have changed in Samba 3.

-- 
Peter Oliver
IS Technical Environment Team
Central Networks



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Oliver, Peter (Central-Networks) wrote:
> I'm still running Samba 2.2 here (actually, HP's CIFS9000 product),
so
> apologies if things have changed in Samba 3.
It's kind of still that way. I had a back door interface or two in a test
server. All were cached in the WINS file. Unfortunately ndbd seems to process
the data file "oldest data first" (at least in
my case) and would only lookup two IP's for the name. Thus with the two test
interfaces removed, it would test both of those old entries and then tell the
client there was no master browser for the
domain.... EVEN THOUGH during startup nmbd knew his own IP correctly. I've
not had the time to properly devote to understanding that part of the code. The
caching of data in a DHCP world (changing
static IP world too) seems problematic to me.

Pizza, H2O, good music, and the C++ source.... that hasn't happened yet.

I have not tried the "interfaces" setting in smb.conf idea though I
kind of knew that entry existed... maybe I'll try that and not the C++
direction first! ;-)

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems

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