On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:27 -0400, Eric Evans wrote: > 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". ---- at this point, you don't need winbindd ---- > > >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? ---- couldn't start nmbd because nmbd is already running...you probably need to fix that.
I don't know about your smb.conf socket address = I don't ever use that. Myself, I would concentrate on hosts allow and possibly bind interfaces only commands if I had multiple ethernet interfaces instead but that's just me. Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
