retitle 352313 samba: "socket address" breaks nmbd broadcast traffic? thanks
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:27:51AM +0100, Stijn Tintel wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >Ok; cc:ing the BTS again, so that this is documented for others. > >On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:42:45AM +0100, Stijn Tintel wrote: > >>browse.dat: > ><snip> > >The browse.dat shows that your DMB can see the DMBs for a number of other > >workgroups, but it is not seeing any other servers in its own workgroup. > >Since I am not seeing this behavior here with 3.0.21b-1, this points to > >your > >problem being the 'interfaces' config mentioned in my previous message, > >rather than a problem with the FHS patch. > OK. > Now, on the 192.168.1.254 machine, the config is like this: > interfaces = 192.168.1.254/24 127.0.0.1/8 > Restarted samba, WOL'ed one XP machine, waited for a while; no change. > Then something came to my attention: > socket address = 192.168.1.254 > I had this too in the machine I first noticed this problem, though I > seem to have commented it recently on that machine, probably arround the > time it tested my custom packages without the FHS patch. Now I > commented the line on the currently problematic machine -> problem solved. Hmm, interesting. I did notice that line in your smb.conf as being out of the ordinary and probably unnecessary, but I didn't suspect it of causing the problem. > Now, I don't know wether this is a bug, or expected behaviour (it's use > has never caused problems with Samba < 3.0.21a). I'll leave this up to > you to decide... Based on the documentation, if this breaks your setup it still sounds like a bug to me. > Anyways, apologees for wasting your time! ... so it's not a waste of time. I'm just glad we were able to confirm it wasn't the fhs patch causing problems, since I really couldn't understand how that was possible. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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