thank you Johannes. no, I don't really need WINS but it was the only way I could join clients to the domain so far. so I activated it. DNS should be available and working too.
/etc/nsswitch.conf looks like this: hosts: files dns Can I use venet with samba or should I change to veth? regards, birgit Johannes Truschnigg <[email protected]> schreibt: >Hi Birgit, > >On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:38:32PM +0200, Birgit Berger (UV Wien) wrote: >> I'm new to the list. hopefully my question is correctly placed here... >> >> I'd installed my samba server 3.5.6 on debian squeeze in a openvz >> container that uses venet. I'd love to keep it that way but I'm not sure >> if that is ok. Do you use samba server with venet or do I have to change >> to veth? >> >> I already read http://wiki.openvz.org/Differences_between_venet_and_veth >> and I don't want to intall shorewall in every container (VE). Also venet >> seems easier to administrate and is faster. >> >> I read >> >http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html >> and nmblookup (chapters 4,5,6 and 10) doesn't work. This is because of >> venet, I suppose. Because with venet broadcasting doesn't work. But do I >> really need it for the Samba server or can I just use DNS (on other >> servers than the samba server) and WINS server (on the samba server)? >Can >> I stick to venet or should I use veth? > >Do you have clients on the network that you know absolutely require WINS >for >resolving names? (I'd actually have a hard time believing that, but who >knows...) Other than that, not having WINS but DNS as its modern and >sensible >replacement in working condition should be perfectly sufficient for your >day >to day Samba (and other networking) needs. I've been running Samba without >nmbd enabled for a few years now (with Windows XP, Windows 7 and >GNU/Linux as >clients) and did not run into any problems becasue of that. > >Grüße aus und nach Wien ;) > >-- >with best regards: >- Johannes Truschnigg ( [email protected] ) > >www: http://johannes.truschnigg.info/ >phone: +43 650 2 133337 >xmpp: [email protected] > >Please do not bother me with HTML-email or attachments. Thank you. > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
