dijuremo@math.gatech.edu
2005-May-13 14:04 UTC
[Samba] WINS and multiple samba servers one subnet
Hi, I think I am not getting WINS to work correctly in my network. Here is the setup, any advise would be greatly appreciated: 3 Samba servers: 1. IBBFILE (Old samba server 2.2.8) being replaced by GT-IBB. I have moved about 70% of the users already. 2. GT-IBB (New samba server to replace IBBFILE samba-3.0.10-1.4E RHEL) 3. GT-BIOLAB (Samba server for students samba-3.0.10-1.4E RHEL). 4. There is a standalone windows 2000 server not configured as a domain controller not running WINS at this point (Workgroup is just IBB, not GT-IBB). It is just a system with a local account, so It should not interfere (WINS software is uninstalled and not running, I already checked this). I have configured GT-IBB to be WINS master and the other servers no to include wins master support to avoid conflicts as follows: 1. smb.conf for IBBFILE: [global] workgroup = IBBFILE domain logons = yes os level = 35 local master = no preferred master = no domain master = no domain logons = yes wins support = no wins server = XXX.XXX.XXX.15 2. smb.conf for GT-IBB which is the WINS server with IP XXX.XXX.XXX.15 [global] workgroup = GT-IBB netbios name = ibbstaff netbios aliases = samba os level = 33 domain master = yes preferred master = yes local master = yes domain logons = yes wins support = yes 3. smb.conf on GT-BIOLAB [global] workgroup = GT-BIOLAB netbios name = biolab netbios aliases = samba-biolab os level = 36 domain master = no preferred master = no local master = no domain logons = yes wins server = XXX.XXX.XXX.15 wins support = no Is this correct? I am getting error messages like: May 13 09:41:55 arwen nmbd[16622]: Doing a node status request to the domain master browser at IP XXX.XXX.XXX.13 failed. (This is IBBFILE) May 13 09:41:55 arwen nmbd[16622]: Cannot get workgroup name. My shares from GT-IBB are slow to display randomly, I already disabled the webclient service on the windows xp machines. I have remapped the "My Documents" folder to the H: drive which is the home directory and sometimes when you try to open "My Documents" it sits for up to 25 seconds before opening. Thanks for any help/tip you can provide.