samba name registration ceases to work

[Craig White]

add a netbios name

do you have a wins server on the local subnet? The WINS server that you
reference is on a different subnet.

Craig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Stephen
> Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:45 PM
> To: Phoenix Linux User Group - Discussions; samba; Troyer, Dean
> Subject: samba name registration ceases to work
>
>
> About a year ago, I set up samba to run on a Linux box here at
> work.  Everything was
> working fine, i.e. others could see the shares on the server and
> get data from them.
> My /var/log/samba directory had approx. 1000 entries in it.  Over
> the last day
> approx. 5 machines can see the box.
>
> The windows NT 4.0 boxes can get their information from the WINS
> server correctly and
> can see the other machines on the local net, but not the samba box.
>
> The current theory is that the name is not getting registered
> with the WINS server.
>
> Stephen Smith