On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Suggitt, Maria [DAN/PICK] wrote: > All > > We have offshore (North Sea) a DEC Alpha running OSF3.2 and samba 1.9.17p2. > Samba was installed to allow the PC's on the company network access to the > reports that the DEC generates and stores in a specified directory. These > are accessed by mapping network drives from the PC. > > smbd and nmbd are kicked off from inetd > > The smb.conf file is > > [global] > guest account = mis > valid users = mis > workgroup = euabz > wins server = 161.102.144.9 > log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m > server string = Samba Server for D1ETAP > max log size = 50 > security=share > preserve case = yes > default case = no > mangle case = yes > socket options = TCP_NODELAY > wins support = no > domain master = no > local master = no > preferred master = no > os level = 0 > [GAS] > comment = D1 Etap Gas Share > guest ok = yes > force group = users > force user = mis > hide dot files = yes > follow symlinks = no > wide links = no > path = /usr/ETAP_EX/RUN/AUDIT/GAS > read only = yes > > I have been informed that the WINS server is to change as is the workgroup / > domain. I have been asked to modify the DEC Alpha accordingly. > > The old WINS server was Win NT. The new one will be Win2k > > My question - is it just a case of changing the wins server and workgroup > settings and restarting inetd (kill -HUP inetd processid) or do I have to > reboot the DEC, or do I have to upgrade Samba versions.
You need to change the "wins server =" to give it the new WINS server address. You need to change the "workgroup =" line to set the new domain name. Then restart samba. There is NO need to reboot the DEC OSF server itself. > > Also what would be required at the new WINS Server end ? None. Suggest you update Samba to a more recent version is you have Win2K or WinXP clients. > > Thanks > > Maria Suggitt > > Software Technical Coordinator > Customer Service Department > Daniel Europe Limited > > Tel +44 (0) 1751 471834 > Fax +44 (0) 1751 471801 > - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
