Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server OES11.1 (OES 11 SP1)
Domain Services for Windows
DSFW
Domain Services for Windows
DSFW
Situation
Unable to retrieve netbios name
/opt/novell/xad/sbin/provision -q --query domain.lan | grep -i 'NetBIOS Name:' does not return the netbios name
/opt/novell/xad/sbin/provision -q --query domain.lan | grep -i 'NetBIOS Name:' does not return the netbios name
/usr/bin/rpcclient -k localhost -c dsroledominfo does not return "Machine Role = 5, Directory Services is running, Domain is in native mode."
How to enable Wins
How to prevent duplicate workstation names within the DSfW domain
How to enable Wins
How to prevent duplicate workstation names within the DSfW domain
Resolution
If NetBIOS is needed, enabling wins support will help provide a more robust and stable NetBIOS Name resolution
Wins can provide notification when joining a workstation to the domain that the workstation name already exists, thus preventing workstations with duplicated names in the domain (see TID 7006851)
Enabling Wins Support
In the [Global] section of the /etc/samba/smb.conf add
Wins can provide notification when joining a workstation to the domain that the workstation name already exists, thus preventing workstations with duplicated names in the domain (see TID 7006851)
Enabling Wins Support
In the [Global] section of the /etc/samba/smb.conf add
wins support = yes
The order or resolution can also be specified by using name resolve order.
example:
wins support=yes
name resolve order = wins hosts bcast lmhost
Do
this only one one DSfW server on the network. Only one server can
cache the WINS database per subnet or network because this database can
not be replicated.
WINS is not routable so if there are two or
more networks, enable one server per network or use the proxy option to
forward WINS request. Do NOT Enable Two or More Servers on the SAME Network or Subnet.
If
there is a DSfW server on another network or subnet, wins proxy can be
used. The DSfW server on another network can forward any name
resolution request to the wins server.
To do this add in the [Global] section of the smb.conf
wins server = <ip address of wins server> #do not put <> around the ip address.
wins proxy = yes
For
DSfW servers or samba servers that are not WINS servers on the same
network, specify the WINS server in the [Global] section of the smb.conf
wins server = <ip address of wins server> #do not put <> around the ip address.
For Novell Cifs add the wins server in the WINS IP Address parameter in the cifs configuration.