[KLUG Members] smb says wins has died

[Dirk Bartley]

The quick answer is that nmbd is/starts wins.

>From the samba rpm original smb.conf file:
;   wins support = yes

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
#       Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but
NOT both
;   wins server = w.x.y.z
   
# WINS Proxy - Tells Samba to answer name resolution queries on
# behalf of a non WINS capable client, for this to work there must be
# at least one  WINS Server on the network. The default is NO.
;   wins proxy = yes

>From the nmbd man page:
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of the Samba suite. 
 
nmbd is a server that understands and can reply to NetBIOS
over IP name service  requests ....
nmbd can also be used as a  WINS  (Windows  Internet  Name
Server)  server. What this basically means is that it will
act as a WINS database server, creating  a  database  from
name  registration  requests that it receives and replying
to queries from clients for these names. 
 
In addition, nmbd can act as a WINS proxy, relaying broad- 
cast  queries  from  clients that do not understand how to 
talk the WINS protocol to a WIN server.

I hope this is helpful.  To consider your issue: it looks like you are
trying to mount an smb share on the localhost interface so you would be
mounting a share on your own computer???

Dirk


On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 13:20, bill wrote:
> When doing smbclient or smbmount, it keeps replying something about 127.0.0.1
> and that wins_srv has died.
> 
> What starts WINS?
> 
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