[KLUG Members] smb says wins has died

[Adam Williams]

>It turns out the problem was in trying to tweak two adapters.
>I did have
>wins support = yes
>But I had added:
>bind interfaces only = yes
>interfaces = eth0 192.168.0.1/24 127.
>I was trying to get samba from binding to the external device, eth1.
>In any case, the extra lines were somehow wiping out the name services due to a
>problem with 127.
>What does the 1/24 mean at the end of 192.168.0.1/24?  IP addresses 1 through
>24?

It means the natmask is 24 bits,  you could also say
192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 in the "old fashioned" notation.

>Still wondering how to solve the problem, though.  Binding samba to eth0 only,
>and keeping it off of eth1 entirely.  Somehow I need to account for 127.0.0.1

Yes, interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 127.0.0.1/8

A WINS server (or PDC) will only work if it listens to itself
(loopback), as smbd uses lo to communicate with nmbd, and so due the
utilities like smbpasswd when run in administrator mode for security
reasons.

>Term translation:  what does PDC and ISC mean in the text below?

PDC = Primary Domain Controller,  the host on an NT (or greater) network
that contains the SAM and processes authentication and (usually) name
space issues.

ISC is just an organization,  then support BIND, INN, & dhcpd.