On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 09:43 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:> > Or the long version, Samba 4.x uses 'nbt', this is part of the > 'samba' > daemon, you cannot run the 'nmbd' daemon with the 'samba' daemon. > unfortunately 'nbt' is not as feature rich as 'nmbd', this means that > there is no browsing with a samba4 AD DC.It isn't that simple. The nbt server has WINS replication, nmbd has browsing.> If you really must have > browsing, you have two options, either wait until the devs find time > to > replace 'nbt' with 'nmbd' or starting writing the code to do it > yourself, I am sure that the devs will welcome any patches to do what > you require.What we need is the browsing code implemented in the nbt_server code, or for netbios browsing to finally die. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Catalyst IT http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
On 18/02/15 10:11, Andrew Bartlett wrote:> On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 09:43 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote: >> Or the long version, Samba 4.x uses 'nbt', this is part of the >> 'samba' >> daemon, you cannot run the 'nmbd' daemon with the 'samba' daemon. >> unfortunately 'nbt' is not as feature rich as 'nmbd', this means that >> there is no browsing with a samba4 AD DC. > It isn't that simple. The nbt server has WINS replication, nmbd has > browsing.OK, you learn something new every day, but it means the same thing in the long run, without the code that is in 'nmbd', there is no browsing with a samba AD DC :-)>> If you really must have >> browsing, you have two options, either wait until the devs find time >> to >> replace 'nbt' with 'nmbd' or starting writing the code to do it >> yourself, I am sure that the devs will welcome any patches to do what >> you require. > What we need is the browsing code implemented in the nbt_server code, or > for netbios browsing to finally die.Again, same thing, different way, patches required to integrate the browsing code from 'nmbd' into 'nbt' :-) However, if it is done this way, doesn't this mean duplicate code in samba4 ? Rowland> Andrew Bartlett >
Am 18.02.2015 um 11:42 schrieb Rowland Penny:> On 18/02/15 10:11, Andrew Bartlett wrote: >> On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 09:43 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote: >>> Or the long version, Samba 4.x uses 'nbt', this is part of the >>> 'samba' >>> daemon, you cannot run the 'nmbd' daemon with the 'samba' daemon. >>> unfortunately 'nbt' is not as feature rich as 'nmbd', this means that >>> there is no browsing with a samba4 AD DC. >> It isn't that simple. The nbt server has WINS replication, nmbd has >> browsing. > > OK, you learn something new every day, but it means the same thing in > the long run, without the code that is in 'nmbd', there is no browsing > with a samba AD DC :-) > >>> If you really must have >>> browsing, you have two options, either wait until the devs find time >>> to >>> replace 'nbt' with 'nmbd' or starting writing the code to do it >>> yourself, I am sure that the devs will welcome any patches to do what >>> you require. >> What we need is the browsing code implemented in the nbt_server code, or >> for netbios browsing to finally die. > > Again, same thing, different way, patches required to integrate the > browsing code from 'nmbd' into 'nbt' :-) > > However, if it is done this way, doesn't this mean duplicate code in > samba4 ? > > Rowland >> Andrew Bartlett >> >Hi Guys, thanks for your explanation. At the moment I have not the skills to do own work on samba, so I must wait and hope. :-) Regards Chris