On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > Richard, > > I think it's pretty clear that that's how it is now. Part of John's > inquiry, though, was "has it always been thus?" There is some > documentation from Microsoft that claims that the 1D LMB name should be a > group name. In fact, if it *were* a group name the whole system would > probably work better. Weenies. They took a ball-peen hammer to their > own WINS implementation just to break it into working.
Yes, I agree that the LMB name should be a group name. The DMB clearly has to be unique, though. > The workgroup<00> name is actually a throw-back to an older browse system > (the LANMAN browse system) and, as you'll note, that name is a group name. > > The kicker regarding your listings (below) is that your WINS server will > tell you it knows nothing about TIGERTEAM<1d>. If you watch the wire, > however, node 172.17.133.233 will send its registrations to the WINS > server and the WINS server will acknowledge them. So the WINS server is > lying when it says it doesn't know about them. > > All this, just to get browsing to work... > > Chris -)----- > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:32:29PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > To further illustrate this, here is the result of nmblookup against a > > Windows NT system that is the DC for a small domain we use: > > > > Looking up status of 172.17.133.233 > > SUNNYVALE <00> - M <ACTIVE> > > TIGERTEAM <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > SUNNYVALE <03> - M <ACTIVE> > > SUNNYVALE <20> - M <ACTIVE> > > TIGERTEAM <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > INet~Services <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > IS~SUNNYVALE <00> - M <ACTIVE> > > TIGERTEAM <1d> - M <ACTIVE> > > ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > ADMINISTRATOR <03> - M <ACTIVE> > > > > The following was actually against the DC, so you can see the <1C> entry > > for the domain, TIGERTEAM, in the DCs list: > > > > Looking up status of 10.0.1.15 > > NT4PDC <00> - M <ACTIVE> > > NT4PDC <20> - M <ACTIVE> > > TIGERTEAM <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > TIGERTEAM <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > TIGERTEAM <1b> - M <ACTIVE> > > TIGERTEAM <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > NT4PDC <03> - M <ACTIVE> > > INet~Services <1c> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > IS~NT4PDC <00> - M <ACTIVE> > > TIGERTEAM <1d> - M <ACTIVE> > > ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> > > ADMINISTRATOR <03> - M <ACTIVE> > > > > Regards > > ----- > > Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, > > sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com > > > > -- Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
