From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) Description of problem: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start does not start the nmbd daemon which is used by samba for WINS resolution of host names. So Windows clients can not connect to samba primary domain controllers that use wins support = yes in /etc/samba/smb.conf Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.26a-6.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: [root@missioncontrol ~]# rpm -qa|grep samba samba-client-3.0.26a-6.fc8 samba-3.0.26a-6.fc8 samba-common-3.0.26a-6.fc8 [root@missioncontrol ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start Starting SMB services: [ OK ] [root@missioncontrol ~]# ps ax|grep nmb 22018 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep nmb [root@missioncontrol ~]# cat /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb |grep nmb [root@missioncontrol ~]# [root@missioncontrol ~]# nmblookup -M NOTWISE-LABS added interface ip=10.1.3.1 bcast=10.1.3.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 querying NOTWISE-LABS on 10.1.3.255 querying NOTWISE-LABS on 127.255.255.255 name_query failed to find name NOTWISE-LABS#1d [root@missioncontrol ~]# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf|grep NOTWISE-LABS workgroup = NOTWISE-LABS [root@missioncontrol ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/nmblookup samba-client-3.0.26a-6.fc8 [root@missioncontrol ~]# /usr/sbin/nmbd -D [root@missioncontrol ~]# ps ax|grep nmbd 22260 ? Ss 0:00 nmbd -D 22261 ? S 0:00 nmbd -D [root@missioncontrol ~]# nmblookup -M NOTWISE-LABS added interface ip=10.1.3.1 bcast=10.1.3.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0 querying NOTWISE-LABS on 10.1.3.255 Got a positive name query response from 10.1.3.1 ( 10.1.3.1 ) 10.1.3.1 NOTWISE-LABS<1d> Actual Results: WINS reslution does not work unless nmbd -D is started manually because it is not in the init script even though the command to start nmbd was in previous versions of the samba init script. Expected Results: nmbd -D should be included to start in /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start Additional info: [root@missioncontrol ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) [root@missioncontrol ~]# free -ot total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 254308 218844 35464 0 26172 78204 Swap: 136512 43964 92548 Total: 390820 262808 128012 [root@missioncontrol ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 935.481 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up bogomips : 1871.83 clflush size : 32 [root@missioncontrol ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 19G 14G 3.8G 80% / none 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 19G 18G 7.0M 100% /mnt/hdb1 /dev/sdc1 9.3G 7.0G 1.9G 80% /home/kameleon //adam/c 29G 29G 131M 100% /home/adam/c /home/kameleon/Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso 3.2G 3.2G 0 100% /mnt/cdrom //10.1.3.225/d 75G 53G 22G 71% /home/adam/d
the init script for nmbd is /etc/init.d/nmb