Kenneth Porter wrote at about 14:35:08 -0700 on Monday, September 5, 2011: > My client Windows XP boxes are failing to register with my WINS server > (running nmbd from Samba). I'm puzzled how to figure out what I'm doing > wrong. > > I'm setting up BackupPC to back up my Windows clients using rsync. I've > installed cwRsync to the clients. BackupPC uses nmblookup to find the > client's IP address given its Windows NETBIOS name. > > I'm distributing the WINS server address via DHCP and see it on the client > using "ipconfig /all". I can run tcpdump on the server (filtering for this > client and the NETBIOS port) and see the register/response sequence at UDP > 137: > > MULTIHOMED REGISTRATION; REQUEST; UNICAST > REGISTRATION; POSITIVE; RESPONSE; UNICAST > REGISTRATION; REQUEST; UNICAST > REGISTRATION; POSITIVE; RESPONSE; UNICAST > > If I signal the nmbd process with SIGHUP to make it dump its table to > nmbd.log, I don't see client in the list. I do see the server and my > Windows Active Directory server's records in the list, but no clients. > > nmblookup finds the client by broadcast (the client responds with the > record) but nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 says there's no record of it. (A query > for the server's own record finds it, so I know the WINS service is at > least working to that degree.) > > So why is nmbd not remembering client records? > > One thing I realized is that the Samba server is configured for one > workgroup, and the client in question is in a different workgroup. Will > nmbd not record records for workstations outside its workgroup?
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