[SunHELP] Samba and WINS problems

[Leon Halford]

This is to be expected.. Samba and all other NetBios clients register
their IP addresses with the WINS server every time they start (or every
time nmbd is started on UNIX). This allows for dynamic NetBios
addressing. 

If this is undesirable, then

EITHER

don't reboot your server during working hours(!) 

OR

make static entries for this Samba server in WINS (using the NT GUI),
then delete the "wins server" entry from your smb.conf . 

OR

Look at the "interfaces" and "bind interfaces only" keywords for
smb.conf, (man smb.conf) and designate less interfaces to listen on and
register.


Incidentally, you should not be running Samba 2.0.5, this is VERY old
and BUG ridden.

-----Original Message-----
From: Simoncini, Matthew
Sent: 27 February 2002 21:39
Subject: [SunHELP] Samba and WINS problems

We have a Solaris 2.7 server with multiple interfaces running Samba
2.0.5.
When the server is rebooted, it seems to update the Primary WINS Server
with
all of the IP addresses assigned to the server, causing some of the
Windows
clients to time out when mapping shares. Below is the 'ifconfig -a' :