Removing a WINS IP from a CIFS server

Thanks, but can you be more specific? The CIFS Server Properties page in Celerra Manager does not show WINS addresses.

click on configuration tab, not on CIFS server tab.

I'm new at this, but I believe the WINS addresses on that page are for the entire data mover. The one I created with "server_cifs server_3 -add ...,wins=-n.n.n.n" is specific to the CIFS server, and only shows up under the specific CIFS server when you do a server_cifs server_3 command. I have not found any way to display these in Celerra Manager, let alone change/delete them.

Dave Thomson

Remove it via Celerra Manager...

Can you see in server_log server_3 at the end , what it says...

Log entries when attempting to use cifs_delete wins=146.197.89.121 :

2008-12-05 13:21:09: SMB: 3: Cifs error: Unknown parameter
2008-12-05 13:21:09: ADMIN: 3: Command failed: cifs delete wins=146.197.89.121

You can not delete a wins which was specified for one netbios or compname using the command line.

I see you already tried what I suggested initially (not reading for comprehension, I guess...)

The way to clear this up is to use a dummy compname to steal the affected interface away from your CIFS server.

server_cifs server_3 -add compname=dummy,domain=yyy.com,interface=fsn1_4,wins=5.5.5.5
server_cifs server_3 -delete compname=dummy
server_cifs server_3 -add compname=xxx,domain=yyy.com,interface=fsn1_4

The last line will add the interface back to the original compname (xxx) without the WINS entry. And just in case there was any confusion, if "xxx" is currently in use, it will lose access until you get the interface restored to it.

HTH

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BillStein