I have the following
PDC: Samba 3.0.37 on Solaris 10
BDC1: Samba 3.0.37 on Solaris 10
PDC is configured to be the WINS server for everything, including XP Pro
clients and other Samba machines.
PDC# testparm -v | grep master
Load smb config files from /etc/sfw/smb.conf
...
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC
...
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
preferred master = Yes
local master = Yes
domain master = Yes
PDC#
BDC1# testparm -v | grep master
Load smb config files from /etc/sfw/smb.conf
...
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_BDC
...
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
preferred master = No
local master = No
domain master = No
BDC1#
I accidentally have BDC1 "local master = yes" initially but fixed
that.
I have not since restart smbd or nmbd on either machine.
On a windows machine, in the network neigborhood, I can rt click on both
PDC and BDC1, and select properties and verify that the machine is
showing as a Primary or Backup.
However, nbtstat on XP and nmblookup on Solaris do NOT show BDC1 as a
domain controller. Specifially I am looking for
"MYDOMAIN <1c> BDC1", to indicate that BDC1 is a domain
controller.
PDC# nmblookup -A PDC
Looking up status of .....
...
..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <1c> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <00> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <1d> - H <ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <1e> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <1b> - H <ACTIVE>
MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00
PDC# nmblookup -A BDC1
Socket opened.
Looking up status of ...
BDC1 <00> - H <ACTIVE>
BDC1 <03> - H <ACTIVE>
BDC1 <20> - H <ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <00> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <1e> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE>
MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00
As expected, the PDC shows up a domain controller and the primary domain
controller ("<1b>.")
Nbstat under XP gives similar results.
The samba how-to documentation indicates that XP clients should choose a
bdc in preference to the pdc, which they never do. Presumably if I
shut down my PDC, XP clients will not be able to login to the network.
I am not sure whether wins.tdb is generated from wins.dat or vice
versa. If I delete BDC1 from wins.dat, the file will shortly be
automatically recreated with the missing entries restored.
I don't know if I can or should add a static entry in WINS.DAT. It
would seem unnecessary since BDC1 is a WINS client of PDC.
Thanks
Actually, restarting nmbd on BDC1 does seem to have fixed this.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Samba BDC does not register in WINS as BDC
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:52:25 -0500
From: Gaiseric Vandal <gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>
Reply-To: gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com
To: samba at lists.samba.org
I have the following
PDC: Samba 3.0.37 on Solaris 10
BDC1: Samba 3.0.37 on Solaris 10
PDC is configured to be the WINS server for everything, including XP Pro
clients and other Samba machines.
PDC# testparm -v | grep master
Load smb config files from /etc/sfw/smb.conf
...
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC
...
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
preferred master = Yes
local master = Yes
domain master = Yes
PDC#
BDC1# testparm -v | grep master
Load smb config files from /etc/sfw/smb.conf
...
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_BDC
...
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
preferred master = No
local master = No
domain master = No
BDC1#
I accidentally have BDC1 "local master = yes" initially but fixed
that.
I have not since restart smbd or nmbd on either machine.
On a windows machine, in the network neigborhood, I can rt click on both
PDC and BDC1, and select properties and verify that the machine is
showing as a Primary or Backup.
However, nbtstat on XP and nmblookup on Solaris do NOT show BDC1 as a
domain controller. Specifially I am looking for
"MYDOMAIN<1c> BDC1", to indicate that BDC1 is a domain
controller.
PDC# nmblookup -A PDC
Looking up status of .....
...
..__MSBROWSE__.<01> -<GROUP> H<ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN<1c> -<GROUP> H<ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN<00> -<GROUP> H<ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN<1d> - H<ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN<1e> -<GROUP> H<ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN<1b> - H<ACTIVE>
MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00
PDC# nmblookup -A BDC1
Socket opened.
Looking up status of ...
BDC1<00> - H<ACTIVE>
BDC1<03> - H<ACTIVE>
BDC1<20> - H<ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN<00> -<GROUP> H<ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN<1e> -<GROUP> H<ACTIVE>
MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00
As expected, the PDC shows up a domain controller and the primary domain
controller ("<1b>.")
Nbstat under XP gives similar results.
The samba how-to documentation indicates that XP clients should choose a
bdc in preference to the pdc, which they never do. Presumably if I
shut down my PDC, XP clients will not be able to login to the network.
I am not sure whether wins.tdb is generated from wins.dat or vice
versa. If I delete BDC1 from wins.dat, the file will shortly be
automatically recreated with the missing entries restored.
I don't know if I can or should add a static entry in WINS.DAT. It
would seem unnecessary since BDC1 is a WINS client of PDC.
Thanks