John, thank you for your detailed answers. The roles of DMB/LMB are much more clear to me now. I also want to mention that the Samba documentation is excellent, and I learned very much from the NetworkBrowsing.html page. Kudos to you for doing a great documentation job!
I have two more questions. The first: Me> I was not able to discover whether nmbd is *required* to be Me> running on a workstation that doesn't publish any shares, and just Me> uses smbclient or smbmount to access other servers' shares. John> Yes, nmbd is required - it provides the name resolution services John> for smbd. But I don't have to run smbd in order to be a client, do I? In fact, I know I don't, because I can run "smbclient //SOMESVR/SOMESHARE" from my linux box, without that box running smbd or nmbd, and somehow the share name and server name gets resolved. So it seems to me that nmbd is *not* required to be running on a workstation that doesn't publish any shares. If that workstation will never be used to publish shares or serve as a master browser, is there any down-side to not installing nmbd? Question two: Are all types of netbios name that are listed in the table in http://ubiqx.org/cifs/Appendix-C.html resolved by a WINS server? For example, I have a windows box that responds to nmblookup like this: # nmblookup -A 192.168.0.111 Looking up status of 192.168.0.111 ABCDMEDIA <00> - M <ACTIVE> NOGROUP <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> ABCDMEDIA <03> - M <ACTIVE> ABCDMEDIA <20> - M <ACTIVE> NOGROUP <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> NOGROUP <1d> - M <ACTIVE> ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE> Would a WINS server store a record for each of the lines in this response? I saw mention that a WINS server only has to respond with up to 25 name resolutions per request. If a client makes a request for "ABCMEDIA", and if there happens to be more than 25 different records of various ABCMEDIA services, will some of those records not get returned? Thanks again for the excellent docs, Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba