samba - Jul 2006 - OK, one more time on the PDC thing

My apologies, I'm terribly sorry to belabor these PDC issues to the point 
where everyone is undoubtedly tired of hearing about them, but I have 
become absolutely obsessed with trying to solve this PDC problem.  Here is 
what is happening now.  I'm trying to connect to the Samba server which is 
set up as the PDC (domain PLAB) from windows client "venus".  Windows 
prompts me to enter a username and password.  I enter the username and 
password for root.  It comes back and says it can't find a network path to 
that domain.  Here's the message that appears in my samba log file:

[2006/07/07 14:40:18, 0] 
nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_refresh_request(183)
   process_name_refresh_request: unicast name registration request received 
for name VENUS<20> from IP 128.253.175.150 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
[2006/07/07 14:40:18, 0] 
nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_refresh_request(184)
   Error - should be sent to WINS server

Can anybody tell me what this error means?

Thank you very much,
Eric

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Eric Evans wrote:
> My apologies, I'm terribly sorry to belabor these PDC issues to the
point
> where everyone is undoubtedly tired of hearing about them, but I have
become
> absolutely obsessed with trying to solve this PDC problem.  Here is what is
> happening now.  I'm trying to connect to the Samba server which is set
up as
> the PDC (domain PLAB) from windows client "venus".  Windows
prompts me to
> enter a username and password.  I enter the username and password for root.
> It comes back and says it can't find a network path to that domain. 
Here's
> the message that appears in my samba log file:
>
> [2006/07/07 14:40:18, 0] 
> nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_refresh_request(183)
>  process_name_refresh_request: unicast name registration request received 
> for name VENUS<20> from IP 128.253.175.150 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
> [2006/07/07 14:40:18, 0] 
> nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_refresh_request(184)
>  Error - should be sent to WINS server
>
> Can anybody tell me what this error means?
>
I do not have your original smb.conf file available, as I am at work and 
only have shell access to this e-mail account, but just as a shot in the 
dark, are you running WINS on your Samba server? IIRC, a PDC is always 
expected to be running WINS, so it looks like it's having problems 
registering "venus" in the Windows/Samba domain. So, I would check to
see
if you are running that . . . if you aren't, I'd give that a shot, and 
I'll try to verify a few more things when I get home for you.

> Thank you very much,
> Eric
>
> 
>
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|  Sean Elble                                     |
|  Virginia Tech                                  |
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