Kenneth Porter wrote at about 14:35:08 -0700 on Monday, September 5, 2011:
 > My client Windows XP boxes are failing to register with my WINS server
 > (running nmbd from Samba). I'm puzzled how to figure out what I'm doing
 > wrong.
 > 
 > I'm setting up BackupPC to back up my Windows clients using rsync. I've 
 > installed cwRsync to the clients. BackupPC uses nmblookup to find the 
 > client's IP address given its Windows NETBIOS name.
 > 
 > I'm distributing the WINS server address via DHCP and see it on the client
 > using "ipconfig /all". I can run tcpdump on the server (filtering for this
 > client and the NETBIOS port) and see the register/response sequence at UDP
 > 137:
 > 
 > MULTIHOMED REGISTRATION; REQUEST; UNICAST
 > REGISTRATION; POSITIVE; RESPONSE; UNICAST
 > REGISTRATION; REQUEST; UNICAST
 > REGISTRATION; POSITIVE; RESPONSE; UNICAST
 > 
 > If I signal the nmbd process with SIGHUP to make it dump its table to
 > nmbd.log, I don't see client in the list. I do see the server and my
 > Windows Active Directory server's records in the list, but no clients.
 > 
 > nmblookup finds the client by broadcast (the client responds with the
 > record) but nmblookup -U 127.0.0.1 says there's no record of it. (A query
 > for the server's own record finds it, so I know the WINS service is at
 > least working to that degree.)
 > 
 > So why is nmbd not remembering client records?
 > 
 > One thing I realized is that the Samba server is configured for one 
 > workgroup, and the client in question is in a different workgroup. Will 
 > nmbd not record records for workstations outside its workgroup?

What does this have to do with BackupPC?
Seems like you have a Windows and/or SAMBA problem - I suggest you
post to the relevant lists.

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