Thanks Craig & Vincent for your suggestions. It seems that there is
definitely some kind of WINS problem but I still don't know exactly why the
WINS serving is not working as it should.
I should also mention that I'm occasionally getting error messages that say
"winbindd: idmap uid range missing or invalid" and "winbindd: cannot
continue, exiting".
on samba server command line...try
smbclient -L pleiades -U Administrator
This command returns the following:
Domain=[PLAB] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.22)
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.22)
scripts Disk
ikalanga Disk
berber Disk
serbian Disk
ling420 Disk
netlogon Disk
_default Printer
128_1 Printer
root Disk Home directory of root
Domain=[PLAB] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22]
Server Comment
--------- -------
PLEIADES Samba 3.0.22
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
PLAB PLEIADES
and see what happens
if you have problems, you might try deleting wins.dat and restarting
samba services
Yes, this seems like a good suggestion, but I tried this and I'm still
having the problem with the client not recognizing the domain.
lastly does nmbd.log reveal that pleiades is the master?
It would seem so. Here is the most recent output from the log.nmbd
(although I'm not so sure about what that last error message means):
[2006/07/11 11:19:38, 2]
nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:announce_local_master_browser_to_domain_master_browser(110)
announce_local_master_browser_to_domain_master_browser:
We are both a domain and a local master browser for workgroup PLAB. Do
not announce to ourselves.
[2006/07/11 11:19:38, 2] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:sync_with_dmb(154)
sync_with_dmb:
Initiating sync with domain master browser PLEIADES<20> at IP
128.253.175.155 for workgroup PLAB
[2006/07/11 11:19:40, 2]
nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_stage1(173)
[2006/07/11 13:09:26, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(727)
Netbios nameserver version 3.0.22 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2006
[2006/07/11 13:09:26, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(746)
standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
[2006/07/11 13:09:26, 2] nmbd/nmbd.c:main(751)
Becoming a daemon.
[2006/07/11 13:09:26, 0] nmbd/asyncdns.c:start_async_dns(151)
started asyncdns process 965
[2006/07/11 13:09:26, 0] lib/pidfile.c:pidfile_create(91)
ERROR: nmbd is already running. File /usr/local/samba/var/locks/nmbd.pid
exists and process id 758 is running.
As for Vincent's question, yes I have 'wins support = yes' in my smb.conf
and I have the address of the Samba server (WINS server) defined in my
client's network control panel in the list of WINS servers. Vincent, I
think you have a good point about the address of the WINS server that's
showing up in the samba.log though. Why is the WINS server coming up as
127.0.0.1 instead of as its regular IP address? It seems to me that if
Samba is taking the IP address of the WINS server to be 127.0.0.1 instead
of its real IP address then that would explain my whole problem, because
obviously the client is not going to be able to locate the WINS server then
by its IP address. So the question I have is, how in the world do I get
the Samba server to attach the real IP address, 128.253.175.155, to the
WINS server instead of the localhost address? Is there some smb.conf
configuration statement that does this that I am overlooking?
Thanks a bunch,
Eric
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