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From: Gaiseric Vandal on 16 Nov 2009 16:00 I have the following PDC: Samba 3.0.37 on Solaris 10 BDC1: Samba 3.0.37 on Solaris 10 PDC is configured to be the WINS server for everything, including XP Pro clients and other Samba machines. PDC# testparm -v | grep master Load smb config files from /etc/sfw/smb.conf .... Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC .... Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions preferred master = Yes local master = Yes domain master = Yes PDC# BDC1# testparm -v | grep master Load smb config files from /etc/sfw/smb.conf .... Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_BDC .... Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions preferred master = No local master = No domain master = No BDC1# I accidentally have BDC1 "local master = yes" initially but fixed that. I have not since restart smbd or nmbd on either machine. On a windows machine, in the network neigborhood, I can rt click on both PDC and BDC1, and select properties and verify that the machine is showing as a Primary or Backup. However, nbtstat on XP and nmblookup on Solaris do NOT show BDC1 as a domain controller. Specifially I am looking for "MYDOMAIN <1c> BDC1", to indicate that BDC1 is a domain controller. PDC# nmblookup -A PDC Looking up status of ..... .... ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE> MYDOMAIN <1c> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE> MYDOMAIN <00> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE> MYDOMAIN <1d> - H <ACTIVE> MYDOMAIN <1e> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE> MYDOMAIN <1b> - H <ACTIVE> MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00 PDC# nmblookup -A BDC1 Socket opened. Looking up status of ... BDC1 <00> - H <ACTIVE> BDC1 <03> - H <ACTIVE> BDC1 <20> - H <ACTIVE> MYDOMAIN <00> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE> MYDOMAIN <1e> - <GROUP> H <ACTIVE> MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00 As expected, the PDC shows up a domain controller and the primary domain controller ("<1b>.") Nbstat under XP gives similar results. The samba how-to documentation indicates that XP clients should choose a bdc in preference to the pdc, which they never do. Presumably if I shut down my PDC, XP clients will not be able to login to the network. I am not sure whether wins.tdb is generated from wins.dat or vice versa. If I delete BDC1 from wins.dat, the file will shortly be automatically recreated with the missing entries restored. I don't know if I can or should add a static entry in WINS.DAT. It would seem unnecessary since BDC1 is a WINS client of PDC. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba |