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Samba Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
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Samba Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

by Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown
April 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
142 pages
4h 54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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nmbd
nmbd [options]
The nmbd program is Samba’s NetBIOS name service and
browsing daemon. It replies to NetBIOS over TCP/IP (also called
NetBT or NBT) name-service requests broadcast from SMB
clients, and optionally to Microsoft’s Windows Internet Name
Service (WINS) requests. Both are versions of the name-to-address
lookup required by SMB clients. The broadcast version uses UDP
broadcast on the local subnet only, while WINS uses TCP, which
can be routed. If running as a WINS server, nmbd keeps a current
name and address database in the file /usr/local/samba/var/locks/
wins.dat.
An active nmbd daemon also responds to browsing protocol
requests used by the Windows Network Neighborhood. This
protocol provides a dynamic directory of servers, as well as the
disks and printers that the servers are providing. As with WINS,
this was initially done by making UDP broadcasts on the local
subnet. With the addition of the local master browser to the
network architecture, it is done by making TCP connections to a
server. If nmbd is acting as a local master browser, it stores the
browsing database in the file /usr/local/samba/var/locks/browse.dat.
Some clients (especially older ones) cannot use the WINS
protocol. To support these clients, nmbd can act as a WINS
proxy, accepting broadcast requests from the non-WINS clients,
contacting a WINS server on their behalf, and returning the WINS
server’s ...
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ISBN: 9780596529017