Samba nmbd messages in log (SOLVED)

[Laurence Vanek]

David G. Miller wrote:
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 22:31 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
>
>>>> I don't know why a Windoze network might need wins support.  Knowing
>>>> Microsoft products, its probably some legacy support option that
>>>> typically doesn't matter for relatively current products.
>>>   
>>
>> From what I've read, WINS is *needed* for resolving machine names
>> across different subnets (that's SMB machine name business, not
>> resolving machine names for any other purpose), without having to do
>> broadcasts (asking everyone if they're machine X, and hoping machine X
>> hears and responds).  It's to do with being able to locate the browse
>> master, so you can contact the right browse master for the answer.
>>
>> On the other hand, if you're using DNS to find the IP for machines, it
>> shouldn't be necessary.
>>
>> NB:  Machine name being the single host nane without any dots.  Like
>> having fred.localdomain with "fred" being the name.
>>
> I wonder if this is a bug in nmbd or its just nmbd doing *exactly* the 
> same thing Windoze does.  It seems to come up when there is another 
> subnet that appears to be accessible.  I saw it on my rig because my 
> Samba box is also my gateway and nmbd complained that it couldn't find 
> a PDC on my external subnet.  This is with Samba configured to only 
> "talk to" the internal network.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
Dave -

What you describe is exactly what I had.

Ive been running Samba for a while, dating back to RedHat Linux days.  
Back them I would swear I needed wins support to work with a couple of 
old win98 machines on my network.  winxp doesnt seem to need it.