Sometime in the last couple months, I've started to see a ton of log messages from nmbd, specifically around things that it thinks should be sent to a WINS server. I am seeing it from both Mac and Windows clients, but not from all of them. They come in a couple flavors:
From a Windows 7 machine:
From a recently-installed Mac running Mavrericks:
Here's the global section of smb.conf:
I am running a very simple network - workgroup-based (no AD), no WINS server, no directory services of any kind other than DNS provided by the router. Running 9.2.0-release. I'm not sure how or why this got started, and why it's only some machines that are causing the issues. Any insight would be appreciated.
From a Windows 7 machine:
Code:
Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: [2014/01/11 13:05:11.755056, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:172(process_name_refresh_request) Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: process_name_refresh_request: unicast name registration request received for name HAYGOOD<00> from IP 192.168.99.64 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: [2014/01/11 13:05:11.755113, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:173(process_name_refresh_request) Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: Error - should be sent to WINS server Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: [2014/01/11 13:05:11.756534, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:172(process_name_refresh_request) Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: process_name_refresh_request: unicast name registration request received for name J6<00> from IP 192.168.99.64 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: [2014/01/11 13:05:11.756574, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:173(process_name_refresh_request) Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: Error - should be sent to WINS server Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: [2014/01/11 13:05:11.758911, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:172(process_name_refresh_request) Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: process_name_refresh_request: unicast name registration request received for name J6<20> from IP 192.168.99.64 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: [2014/01/11 13:05:11.758951, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:173(process_name_refresh_request) Jan 11 13:05:11 delta nmbd[3352]: Error - should be sent to WINS server
From a recently-installed Mac running Mavrericks:
Code:
Jan 11 13:19:19 delta nmbd[3352]: [2014/01/11 13:19:19.166641, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:213(process_name_registration_request) Jan 11 13:19:19 delta nmbd[3352]: process_name_registration_request: unicast name registration request received for name ^A^BSMB_NSCHECK<ff> from IP 192.168.99.176 on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET. Error - should be sent to WINS server Jan 11 13:19:19 delta nmbd[3352]: [2014/01/11 13:19:19.166717, 0] nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:213(process_name_registration_request) Jan 11 13:19:19 delta nmbd[3352]: process_name_registration_request: unicast name registration request received for name ^A^BSMB_NSCHECK<ff> from IP
Here's the global section of smb.conf:
Code:
[global] encrypt passwords = yes dns proxy = no strict locking = no read raw = yes write raw = yes oplocks = yes max xmit = 65535 deadtime = 15 display charset = LOCALE max log size = 10 syslog only = yes syslog = 1 load printers = no printing = bsd printcap name = /dev/null disable spoolss = yes smb passwd file = /var/etc/private/smbpasswd private dir = /var/etc/private getwd cache = yes guest account = nobody map to guest = Bad Password obey pam restrictions = Yes # NOTE: read smb.conf. directory name cache size = 0 max protocol = SMB2 netbios name = delta workgroup = HAYGOOD server string = FreeNAS Server store dos attributes = yes hostname lookups = yes time server = yes null passwords = yes security = user create mask = 0666 directory mask = 0777 client ntlmv2 auth = yes dos charset = CP437 unix charset = UTF-8 log level = 1
I am running a very simple network - workgroup-based (no AD), no WINS server, no directory services of any kind other than DNS provided by the router. Running 9.2.0-release. I'm not sure how or why this got started, and why it's only some machines that are causing the issues. Any insight would be appreciated.