--On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 6:50 AM -0700 Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
do you have 'wins support = yes' in your smb.conf on the system that is supposed to be the wins server?
Yes.
Is this system running backuppc a different computer? If so, does it have 'wins server = $IP.Address.Of.WINS_Server' ? in smb.conf?
Same computer is running BackupPC.
Do all WinXP systems use the ip address for this system as the wins server?
Are they all on the same network/subnet?
Yes. Same host is also the DHCP server for the subnet and provides the WINS value to all clients, and I can see it set on the XP client.
What is the 'os level' of this wins server? Is it higher than 32? (I'd probably make it > 64)
That setting I wasn't aware of. I'll change that.
Did you examine the wins.tdb by using tdbdump?
That might be an issue. I can't find a wins.tdb in /var/lib/samba.
Are you aware that elections take 15 minutes? If you actually restart the nmbd process on your samba based wins server, you need to wait to get a browsing list.
Oddly, when I restart samba, I see in nmbd.log:
[2011/09/06 11:00:24, 4] nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:wins_write_database(2353) wins_write_database: Dump of WINS name list.
And a long list of client names. But "nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 [clientname]" tells me that name isn't found, for any of the clients seen in the list.
Could this be workgroup-related? I have both an AD domain and a workgroup on the subnet, plus customer and vendor machines with their own workgroups.