Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-09 Thread Adam Williams
from the man page: netbios aliases (G) This is a list of NetBIOS names that nmbd will advertise as additional names by which the Samba server is known. This allows one machine to appear in browse lists under multiple names. If a machine is acting as a

Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Bonnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Toby Bluhm wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello We are facing a bit boring problem We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on

Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same IP address for the new PDC. Why not keeping the same name for your server? Then with same name and same IP

Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Bonnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Nicole wrote: We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same IP address for the new PDC. Why not

Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Yes I know it now , it is logical captain but the preceding person which installed the old samba version has written the samba version in the server string statement !!! Ouch! and it would be very confusing for users and admins ... I don't think the users would notice, and maybe not even

Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-05 Thread Toby Bluhm
Frank Bonnet wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Toby Bluhm wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello We are facing a bit boring problem We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC

[Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Bonnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello We are facing a bit boring problem We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same IP address for the new

Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-04 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
Frank Bonnet schrieb: We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same IP address for the new PDC. Why you use IPs on the client instead of names? Here we

Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Bonnet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Muehlfeld wrote: Frank Bonnet schrieb: We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same IP address for the

Re: [Samba] Changing samba PDC version but keeping the same IP address

2009-06-04 Thread Toby Bluhm
Frank Bonnet wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello We are facing a bit boring problem We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same IP