Hello,
I had the same problem. I've found a workaround by patching the code in "nmbd/nmbd_namelistdb.c":
/******************************************************************* Expires old names in all subnet namelists. ******************************************************************/
void expire_names(time_t t)
{
struct subnet_record *subrec; for( subrec = FIRST_SUBNET; subrec; subrec =
NEXT_SUBNET_INCLUDING_UNICAST(subrec) ) {
expire_names_on_subnet( subrec, t );
}expire_names_on_subnet( wins_server_subnet, t ); /* ADD THIS LINE FOR REMOVING EXPIRED NAME FROM WINS TABLE */ }
I dont know if it's the correct things to do, but it works fine for me with my configuration (PDC+LDAP+WINS with Samba 3.0.4 on MDK 9.2)
If a real Samba develloper can have a quick look to this to make a real correction for next release.
Bye
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Sorry for not truncating but I thought the info was relevant...
This "bug" has apparently been documented in bugzilla but no activity since March 18/04??
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607
____________________________________ Jeff Gerard - Systems Administrator Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company Office: 204-985-0517 Fax: 204-947-5192 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject [Samba] Samba 3.0.3/4 - WINS server expires names after 2 hours
Hi there...this problem has me banging my head against a wall....
Until last week I was running Samba 2.2.7a on an old Slack box. I decided
to upgrade as I needed more drive space and wanted something more current.
I went with Fedora Core 2 and am running 2.6.6-1.435 kernel. I was using the default Samba install that came packaged with this release of Fedora and decided to try compiling/installing 3.0.4 to see if it would resolve my issue, which it did not.
With logging options on nmbd set to d=3, I was finally able to figure out why this problem was happening but now how to prevent it.
I am using Samba to do some file sharing, but more importantly for it's dns proxy capabilities. We currently have 2 domain names as we migrate from a Novell environment to an Active Directory environment. All windows
clients are passed the samba server's IP for a wins address in order to do
netbios name resolution and not have to configure 2 different domain names
in the search suffix list.
What has been happening since I started to use this version of samba is that after 2 hours, certain names stop resolving. The only way to correct
the problem was to restart both smbd and nmbd. I had tried restarting only smbd and then only nmbd but to no avail...both had to be restarted to
get things running again. Today I finally caught some log entries that showed me what was happening.
If I try to ping an address on the old domain from a windows workstation, in this example, "ping ns-updates", I see the following in log.nmbd: (ignore the timestamps as I have patched logs together to get this info)
[2004/06/23 13:56:49, 3] nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:wins_process_name_query_request(1485)
wins_process_name_query: name query for name NS-UPDATES<00> from IP 10.239.10.38
[2004/06/23 13:56:49, 3] nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:wins_process_name_query_request(1549)
wins_process_name_query: name query for name NS-UPDATES<00> not found - doing dns lookup.
[2004/06/23 13:56:49, 3] nmbd/asyncdns.c:queue_dns_query(308)
added DNS query for NS-UPDATES<00>
[2004/06/23 13:56:49, 3] nmbd/asyncdns.c:add_dns_result(43)
add_dns_result: DNS gave answer for NS-UPDATES of 10.3.9.100
[2004/06/23 13:56:49, 3] nmbd/nmbd_namelistdb.c:add_name_to_subnet(236)
add_name_to_subnet: Added netbios name NS-UPDATES<00> with first IP 10.3.9.100 ttl=7200 nb_flags= 4 to subnet WINS_SERVER_SUBNET
The "ttl=7200" is what has me baffled. After 2 hours has passed, If I try
to "ping ns-updates" again, I get no reply on the windows workstation (ie,
"Ping request could not find host ns-updates. Please check the name and try again." and I see the following in log.nmbd:
[2004/06/23 13:55:57, 3] nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:wins_process_name_query_request(1485)
wins_process_name_query: name query for name NS-UPDATES<00> from IP 10.239.10.38
[2004/06/23 13:55:57, 3] nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:wins_process_name_query_request(1531)
wins_process_name_query: name query for name NS-UPDATES<00> - name expired. Returning fail.
The ttl values vary, and in most cases are set to 300000, but all of the hosts that are set to 7200 will expire after 2 hours and I am no longer able to resolve these hostnames until I restart smbd and nmbd.
My smb.conf looks like this:
[global]
log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
load printers = yes
name resolve order = lmhosts hosts bcast
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
interfaces = eth0
null passwords = yes
domain master = no
hosts allow = 10.
encrypt passwords = yes
winbind use default domain = no
template shell = /bin/false
wins support = yes
dns proxy = yes
netbios name = wpg1lx01
netbios aliases = zelda
password server = None
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
default = pub
local master = no
workgroup = TECH
socket address = 10.38.2.11
printcap name = /etc/printcap
security = share
preferred master = no
bind interfaces only = no
max log size = 512
os level = 0
Right now I have a cron job set up to restart samba every 2 hours. I can't have this happening if someone is accessing files off the file shares that I have setup.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am contemplating going back to Samba 2.2.x to see if it resolves the issue but would really rather not have to do that.
Thanks!
____________________________________ Jeff Gerard - Systems Administrator Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company Office: 204-985-0517 Fax: 204-947-5192 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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