On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:34:28 +0000 (GMT) John H Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark, > > I dusted off my crytal ball and as I was polishing it there was a > small response. :) > > Now back to your issue: > > 1. Is your samba server set up with "wins support = Yes"? > > 2. Do ALL your MS Windows clients TCP/IP configurations for WINS > Address have the IP address of your Samba server that is running per > 1. above? > > 3. Have you checked in the wins.dat file on the samba server that ALL > your MS Windows clients have entries for: > MACHINENAME<0x00> > MACHINENAME<0x03> > MACHINENAME<0x20> > > If not, this is the first issue that must be resolved. > > Let me know what you find here, then if necessary we can take a few > more steps together (we can do this without a crystal ball if we work > at it). > > Cheers, > John T. > John, Always use Windex, not a waxy compound for the crystal balls. :) My samba server is set for wins support = yes. I use dhcpd (version 3 some-odd) to assign ip addresses, gateways, domain names and netbios servers. When I checked wins.dat, the windowsxp machines did not have a"0x03" entry. (it did have 0x20 and 0x00) Neither of them. But the windowsme machine did. Also my openbsd machine when I started smbd and nmbd had all three entries. I have a feeling that I might have to do some type of configuration on the XP machines in order to get them registered properly in my wins server. But I'm too lazy to check that out right now. Because my wife is sick and I have to cook dinner again. If someone else knows, I'd be happy to hear, but if I find out myself I'll announce it to the list. Unless I'm totally wrong. In which case I'll go back to lurking. mark ps I just added a option netbios-node-type 8; line to see if that would force a wins entry for the winxp machines. It didn't. (8 seems to be hybrid, first try wins, then bcast). mark -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
