Re: [Samba] WINS Server TIme out registering IP

2011-09-27 Thread steffo76
Has anyone ever figured this out ? I have the same problem- as soon as I put the log level to 2 or higher, I get the following: wins_registration_timeout: WINS server 127.0.0.1 timed out registering IP 192.168.0.12 I looked into it and see packets being sent from 192.168.0.12 to 127.0.0.1:137

[Samba] Browsing confusion

2011-09-13 Thread steffo76
Hi there, I need advice regarding wins settings. I am running two samba servers on the same subnet in a multi-subnetted network. They are connected to a LDAP backend. One of them is supposed to be the PDC and the other one should act as BDC. The question is how the clients on the other subnets

[Samba] rid generation questions

2011-09-06 Thread steffo76
Ok, I couldn't find out what sambaAlgorithmicRidBase does but managed to find the source for the RID allocation in pdb_ldap.c where it says: /* Find the largest of the three attributes "sambaNextRid", "sambaNextGroupRid" and "sambaNextUserRid". I gave up on the concept of differentiating between

[Samba] rid generation questions

2011-09-05 Thread steffo76
Hello list, I have a few questions to ask... I am about to migrate from Samba 2 to 3 (3.5.9). I am going to use LDAP as backend in the future and came across something I don't understand. As far as I know the 'old' way to generate RIDs for users is to take their uidnumber, multiply it by two an