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Hi! I need to add static entries to my Samba 3.0.9 WINS server but I can't. Let's explain: The "Samba Collection Howto" chapter "Network Browsing" , section "Static WINS Entries" tells that I can edit my "wins.dat" file (/opt/samba/var/locks/wins.dat) to set the TTL of some entries to 0 . No matter if I edit the TTL of some existing entries

Hi, first of all, my apologies for the very technical and long nature of this message... I still do not give up with the problem I am having about not being able to browse the Network Neighborhood sometimes. My original post to the list was: >I am using Windows 95 dial-up networking to connect to a Samba box (the >Samba box is a PPP server). I am having problems to browse the Network

Hello Folks After a upgrade of a NT network, with a PDC and different workgroups over subnets, to SAMBA,im having some problems with WINS over subnets. I have a DOMAIN in my primary net and some workgroups on the subnets, a different workgroup to each subnet. I need that each subnet see all the workgroups in the Network Neighborhood. In the primary net i've SAMBA being a PDC, master browser

Hi there...this problem has me banging my head against a wall.... Until last week I was running Samba 2.2.7a on an old Slack box. I decided to upgrade as I needed more drive space and wanted something more current. I went with Fedora Core 2 and am running 2.6.6-1.435 kernel. I was using the default Samba install that came packaged with this release of Fedora and decided to try

I'm trying to load the apple attributes and classes to samba4 using ldbmodify. I can get it to load, sort of. I keep getting errors and having to modify the file. Command I'm using: sudo ldbmodify -v -H ldap://lda.server.local -UAdministrator /home/user/apple-mcx.ldif here is the ldif that I'm loading

Hello, how can I fix wins entries in Samba 2.2.9? I created a file with the entries to fix, then deleted the wins.dat file, but the programme does not append the new entries. Changing the TTL to 0 does not work. Best regards, M.

I have following smb.conf: hosts deny = all hosts allow = 192.168.x.0/32 127.0.0.1/32 name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast interfaces = 192.168.x.y/32 127.0.0.1/32 socket address = 192.168.x.y bind interfaces only = yes disable netbios = yes remote browse sync = 192.168.x.255

I have a Samba server 2.0.7pre2 on linux 2.2.13, which has joined a domain using smbclient. Security=domain, and all works well. It is configured to be the WINS server. PCs and NT boxes in this domain, plus the DCs and PCs in 2 other domains are set up to use this box as their WINS server. (this is Domain1) The PDC in Domain1 is the master browser (local and domain). Here is the problem: 2

We have asimple home peer-to-peer workgroup wireless home network with 2 win2k + sp4 machines. linksys wireless router. it was DHCP based, but I converted tostatic IP to help get things to work. tried to add new linux laptop to network. Fedora Core 2, samba 3.0.3-5. I can put and get files from linux laptop with smbclient but I can't find the linux machine from the win2k machines via

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to ask your help with what may be an nmbd interworking problem. The situation is as described in the samba distribution documenet BROWSING.TXT. I have LANS connected by routers to a central site. FreeBSD 2.2.2R/Samba 1.9.17 nmbds at the remote LAN act as WINS proxy's to a a Samba WINS at the central site. All is well when the WINS proxy samba and the

Hello together! I have an problem with the wins server, based on a Gentoo distribution with Samba 3.0.24. The problem is following: After an restart of samba everything works fine, but after an undefined time period its not possible to make an nmblookup for some other computers. The samba server is also configured as wins server. an cut from the smb.conf: ...... domain master = Yes

Hi folks, i've a question about the ttl, which my wins hook script gets from smbd4wins: I record many entries with extrem high ttls like refresh $SERVER 20 1181977528 $IPADDRS... the ttl of 1181977528 means ~13.000 days which is very long. if i look into the ldb itself, there's an expiry time of ~ 24days (16.06.2007). ---- dn: name=$SERVER,type=0x20 [...] expireTime:

I just successfully upgraded a server from v 2.2.8 to v3.0.7. When I execute smbstatus or swat it correctly shows v 3.0.7. When I browse thru network neighborhood it still shows v 2.2.8. I stopped samba, and removed /usr/local/samba/var/locks/browse.dat & wins.dat. Then restarted samba. It still reports v2.2.8 thru network neighborhood. In viewing browse.dat it shows 2.2.8. Where is this

I've trawled the Archives for assistance with this problem, but all the threads I've found petter out without a solution being posted. We have a Samba 2.2.1a server as a PDC for our network of NT4 and 98 machines. They all get along fine. We have roaming profiles established so people can move around. All no problem. We have a Quantum Snap 2000 server that has all our working

Unable to resolve my problem after long time of reading and searching I decide to ask for help to the experts. The problems is that there is no browse list even thought everything works fine. I can share files with others machines but don't see anything on network neighborhood. Please Help! Testparm shows the following: max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE read

Hi Rowland, > You could try adding something like this near to the top of > dhcp-dyndns.sh: > > TTL=$(cat /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf | grep 'max-lease-time' | awk -F ';' > '{print $1}' | awk '{print $NF}') > > Then replace the '3600' with '$TTL' Users like comments in their config files. Your script: cat /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf |

Hi, i'm reading: samba-3.0.20a/docs/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2564441 ... The election process is /fought out, so to speak/ over every NetBIOS network interface. In the case of a Windows 9x/Me machine that has both TCP/IP and IPX installed and has NetBIOS enabled over both protocols, the election will be decided over both protocols. As often happens, if the Windows 9x/Me

Server: Linux 2.2.10 samba-2.0.5a-1 (rpm) Client: Win98 inside vmware1.0.2 using hostonly networking. Problem: 'Unable to browse the network' I have worked my way through the tests in DIAGNOSIS.txt, and all tests pass. If I run Test 9 "net use x: \\BIGSERVER\TMP" from a MS-DOS prompt, then I can see my linux /tmp directory in x:. BUT if I just log in to Windows

> The problem you'll have with this is that lmhosts like hosts needs to be distributed > to all machines. Is it possible to declare the samba server as the WINS server for all machines (which can be done via DHCP), and then prime the running samba with an lmhosts generated via the DNS database? What would happen if a machine with a given IP tried to register itself with a different

Hi, I've been following some of the posts (never received a reply to mine but found one similiar). I have a question that I hope you can clarify. Original question: I can see the server from my Windows XP machine using network neighbors, but when I double click on it I get: Path not found One reply: If you're using NT domains (not simple "workgroups")... What is the