John, I tried to configure my Samba server to run WINS on it. And it didn't work. I mean I added wins support = yes line into my config file, restarted Samba, and WINS didn't work. I was getting "wins_srv_died(): Could not mark WINS server 127.0.0.1 down." error messages... I run WINS service on a NT box and made Samba to use that server as WINS server. All those things had been done before I started testing names resolution on my Linux server. I mean with the WINS things setup the way Samba wants it I still cannot get test # 5 passed (using a client name like cmp0068, using client's IP address it works) and my users still cannot find the domain controller... .
Sure enough if I add an entry for the client into hosts file on the server, the test 5 gets passed... But that is not the way I want things to work :-))) BTW, I don't have firewall running on my linux box. I appreciate any ideas/thoughts you guys might have regarding this :-) Thanks a lot, Andrey. -----Original Message----- From: John H Terpstra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:13 AM To: Andrey Oleinik Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] No NT domain controller is available problem Audrey, How have you configured WINS? Have you read the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf? You might benefit from reading chapter 9. Cheers, John T. On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Andrey Oleinik wrote: > Hi all, > > I have samba server 2.2.8a to act as a PDC on a mixed > WinXP/Win2k/WinNT network. > I joined all my workstations to the domain with no > problem... And users > can login into the domain > and access their folders/printers, BUT!!! Every now and > then they > cannot log in getting error message > that domain controller cannot be found.... > > I'm trying to track the problem down :-) When I went thru > the > DIAGNOSIS.TXT, test #5 fails: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./nmblookup -B CMP0094 '*' > querying * on 0.0.0.0 > 10.10.8.4 *<00> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (Server name is "homo", client is "CMP0094", > the servers IP is 10.10.8.4, the clients ip > is 10.10.8.79) > > Shouldn't the above lookup answer with the clients ip? > > I have 2 Win2003 servers as domain members as well. Can that be the > problem? > I mean it seems like Samba 3.x may be the more appropriate > to server > Win2003 systems? > > Thanks! > Andrey. > > > > -- 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
