[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba HELP!!!

[Greg E]

MadHat wrote:
> 
> Greg E wrote:
> >
> > I found the problem in the "/var/locks/samba/wins.dat" file.  Apparently
> > samba uses this file for a history of servers.  Once samba was running and
> > a client (my windows box) attempted to access the net samba read this file
> > and declared a conflict between WINS masters.  I guess you'd say this is a
> > bug considering that the old server IP was no longer reachable on either
> > the direct net or a subnet and the new server had already won the election.
> >
> 
> Are you running smb as a stand-alone daemon or through inetd?  Sounds
> like as a stand-alone daemon.  I wonder if that would still be a
> problems if running it through inetd instead.  That way it checks config
> files every time, less issues of caching.   I guess it would depend how
> much traffic you get to see if that would a bad thing or not.
> 
> > Greg E
> >
> --
> MadHat

IIRC init but I haven't thought about it since I got it working about 6mos
ago.  One of those things that once I got through the details and it was happy
I archived the info somewhere in the gray matter if ever needed again.

In reading the man page on nmbd I don't think it would matter.  The man page
says that the wins.dat file is used by any WINS master but it does not say
anything about the contents overridding the active session.  The browse.dat
and wins.dat files are not config files but rather used only when needed by
nmb.

Greg E