On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Birgit Berger (UV Wien) <[email protected]> wrote: > sorry, to bother you again. > > I cannot join win7 or winXP clients to my samba domain sever located on a > debian server in a VE (openvz) unless I set up the server and clients to > use WINS. But the recommendation is not to use WINS. openvz natively uses > venet. venet makes broadcasting impossible. > > I guess DNS is sufficient for name<->IP resolution but not for NetBios > name<->IP resolution (it doesn' know name types and maybe that's why it > cannot find DMB and logon server?) and that's why my win7 and winXP > clients cannot join the domain.
Why don't the netbios names match the DNS names? Is your VPN not setting your default domain names? > So given my virtual server setup with openvz, do you rather suggest to use > WINS or to set up veth so I can use normal broadcasting? > Or are there other ways to do name resolution with a samba server > installed in a VE container which I oversaw. > > I'm a newbie and netbios name resolution is hard to understand. so I would > be very happy to get any suggestions from people already using samba > server in an open vz container.... do you guys use venet or veth or do you > just activate WINS? > > birgit > > > > > > =========================== > > 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. > > > > Johannes Truschnigg <[email protected]> schreibt: >>Hello again, >> >>On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 02:28:24PM +0200, Birgit Berger (UV Wien) wrote: >>> 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 >> >>That's fine - you don't want anything reagrding winbind or WINS in there, >>since you don't have proper name resolution set up over that kind of >>protocol/service. >> >>> Can I use venet with samba or should I change to veth? >> >>Just stick with what you got - vnet will be fine. >> >>Have a nice day! >> >>-- >>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. > > > > Birgit Berger > > EDV-Administratorin an der ÖH Uni Wien > > http://www.oeh.univie.ac.at/arbeitsbereiche/edv.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
