Hi, I've posted before about the problem with WINS and the INet~Services name IIS uses. (http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-August/110189.html) The problem I get is when any host running IIS tries to renew its names with the Samba WINS server (e.g. after the default 5-day period) the renewal fails for *all* names for the server. As I understand it the problem is with Samba's WINS server implementation not handling the mixed case Windows uses for the "Inet~Services#1c" name. (Am I correct in thinking all other NetBIOS names are upper case only?). So I was wondering, Samba Team, if this is going to be handled at some point? Should I put it in Bugzilla? I realise the general advice is to use a Microsoft WINS server in this kind of scenario but I like Samba, everything else works fine for me. (Disclaimer: I'm still running Samba 3.0.4 - as I said everything else works great - but I've looked out for a fix for this and I don't think it's been done to date). All the best, Leon...
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:56:39PM +0000, Leon Stringer wrote:> Hi, > > I've posted before about the problem with WINS and the INet~Services > name IIS uses. > (http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-August/110189.html) > > The problem I get is when any host running IIS tries to renew its names > with the Samba WINS server (e.g. after the default 5-day period) the > renewal fails for *all* names for the server. > > As I understand it the problem is with Samba's WINS server > implementation not handling the mixed case Windows uses for the > "Inet~Services#1c" name. (Am I correct in thinking all other NetBIOS > names are upper case only?).No, that's not the issue, at least not with modern nmbd code. You might want to try upgrading from 3.0.4, I definately fixed case-sensitive bugs in this code between then and now. Jeremy.