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Learn Linux, 302 (Mixed environments)
NetBIOS and WINS
Configuring Samba to serve names and manage browsing
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In this article, learn about these concepts:
- Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
- Network input/output system (NetBIOS)
- Local master browser features
- Domain master browser features
- Name resolution
- Configuring and using Samba as a WINS/NetBIOS Name Server (NBNS)
- NetBIOS browsing, elections, and service announcements
This article helps you prepare for Objective 314.2 in Topic 314 of the Linux Professional Institute's (LPI) Mixed Environment specialty exam (302). The objective has a weight of 7.
This article assumes that you have a working knowledge of Linux command-line functions and that you understand the basics of Samba configuration. You should be familiar with the overall structure of the smb.conf configuration file. You should also have a basic understanding of the Domain Name System (DNS) as a point of comparison for some of the topics covered in this article.
Understanding NetBIOS name resolution
For the most part, computers' names are likely to be the same regardless of the protocol you're using. In the case of the Server Message Block (SMB)/Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocols, though, some wrinkles exist because of the history of the protocol outside of the usual TCP/IP realm. Specifically, SMB/CIFS originated on networks that used the NetBIOS and NetBIOS Extended User Interface (NetBEUI) protocols, which have their own rules. When SMB/CIFS was modified to work with TCP/IP, some of the old NetBIOS naming conventions had to be adapted for TCP/IP use. Although you don't always have to follow the NetBIOS naming conventions with modern SMB/CIFS clients and servers, sometimes you do, so you should understand the rules, including the different ways NetBIOS resolves names and the role of a WINS server on your network.
Understanding NetBIOS
Figure 1 shows a representation of a pair of network stacks (for client and server) using the Open System Interconnection model. Think of SMB/CIFS as a presentation-level protocol stack in this model. In the original pre-TCP/IP implementation, SMB/CIFS relied on NetBIOS at the session level, which in turn relied on NetBEUI at the transport level.
Figure 1. NetBEUI and NetBIOS are session- and transport-layer protocols in the network protocol stack
In Linux, neither NetBIOS nor NetBEUI exists. Samba takes on the duties of both the SMB/CIFS protocols and the NetBIOS implementation. Instead of using NetBEUI, Samba communicates over TCP and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The combination of NetBIOS over TCP/IP is sometimes referred to as NBT, whose duties include:
- The name service. In TCP/IP networking, computers have names used by people, but computers communicate using IP addresses and hardware addresses. In NetBEUI, IP addresses are not used—just names and hardware addresses. NBT therefore handles creating the IP addresses that are not required on SMB/CIFS over NetBIOS and NetBEUI networks. The first half of this article is devoted to this topic.
- The datagram service. This is a type of network communication that doesn't create a permanent connection. In TCP/IP, it's roughly equivalent to the UDP, so NBT uses UDP for features that require datagram services, such as the browser elections described in the second half of this article.
- The session service. A NetBIOS transaction forms a longer-term connection for most data-transfer requests, such as when a user mounts a file share. This type of service maps logically onto the TCP part of TCP/IP, so NBT uses TCP for such connections.
In practice, NBT isn't mentioned much; we typically speak of NetBIOS names or NetBIOS name resolution when describing the names used in SMB/CIFS networking and how they're mapped onto IP addresses. NetBIOS names come in two parts:
- The machine name. This name, like the machine name in DNS, refers to a specific computer. As a practical matter, it's best if this name is the same as the computer's DNS machine name. The machine name might not be unique in the world, but it should be unique on your network—at least in the computer's workgroup or domain.
- The workgroup name. This name applies to all the related computers on a network. In a simple (non-domain) SMB/CIFS configuration, the workgroup name is just a way of organizing computers for purposes of browsing, as described in the second half of this article. In a network that's configured as a domain, the workgroup name is given to the domain, which provides domain-level services, as described in "Learn Linux, 302 (Mixed environments): Domain control."
This two-tier naming system is one of the reasons that NetBIOS networking is local in scope, at least compared to the globe-spanning Internet that's based on TCP/IP. With only two naming levels, it's impractical to create enough names that are unique enough to identify literally billions of computers.
In NetBIOS networking, each computer is configured with its own name, which it announces to the network using a broadcast. This decentralized approach to naming makes setup easy for relatively inexperienced users and administrators—provided they don't try to use a name that's already in use.
NetBIOS names can be up to 15 characters long. They can contain letters, numbers, and the following symbols:
! @ # $ % ^ & ( ) - ' { } . ~
As a practical matter, it's usually best to restrict names to letters and perhaps numbers. Letters in names are case-insensitive. In this article, I use uppercase letters for NetBIOS names and lowercase letters in DNS names.
Although DOS, Windows, and IBM Operating System/2 (OS/2) all support NetBEUI, they have largely come to use NBT today, even on networks where all the computers can use NetBEUI. The basic principles of NBT operation and NetBIOS name resolution are the same on all of these platforms.
Types of NetBIOS name resolution
Suppose a user sits down at a workstation and wants to access the server
called SPEAKER. The user launches a suitable client application
and enters
SPEAKER as the server's name. What
happens? Four different methods of name resolution exist on an NBT
- Broadcast resolution. The client can send a broadcast message, which all the computers on the local network receive, asking for the IP address associated with the host name SPEAKER. That computer should then respond, and the client can initiate the connection for subsequent data transfers. This type of name resolution is sometimes called B mode name resolution, and a computer that uses this method exclusively is called a B-node.
- Using a name server. The client can contact an NBNS server, or WINS server. (The two terms are synonymous.) Like a DNS server, a WINS server maintains a mapping of IP addresses and host names. A WINS server, however, collects these mappings based on the broadcasts computers make when they boot rather than based on a locally maintained configuration file and consultation with other servers. This method is sometimes referred to as P-mode name resolution.
- Using lmhosts. A configuration file called lmhosts (typically stored in /etc/samba on Samba systems or in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC on Windows systems) can store mappings of IP addresses to host names. This file is similar to the /etc/hosts file, which serves a similar purpose for TCP/IP host names.
- Using DNS. Although it's not a part of NBT, you can configure Samba to use DNS for NetBIOS name resolution. (The same is true for modern versions of Windows.)
Many computers will be configured to use several of these name resolution methods, and in a particular order, to maximize the chance of finding the desired system with a minimum fuss. Old Microsoft Windows 9x or Windows Me systems used B-mode resolution by default, but most newer versions of Windows use DNS as the primary NetBIOS name resolution method.
A WINS server, whether it's a Linux computer running Samba or a Windows server, must listen for name broadcasts, maintain a mapping of IP addresses to NetBIOS names, and answer queries about these mappings from clients. As a practical matter, this means that the WINS server must be available at all times—or as close to that as you can manage. Frequently, a domain controller is an excellent candidate to function as a WINS server. If your computer hosts its own DNS server, that computer might be a good choice, too. You must explicitly configure your chosen computer as a WINS server—a task that's described in the next section for Samba servers.
Setting Samba name resolution options
With the needs and methods of NetBIOS name resolution in mind, you can proceed to configuring Samba's name resolution options. These fall into two broad classes: Samba client options and options that control Samba's behavior as a WINS server.
Setting Samba client options
You may want to adjust a number of smb.conf options that can affect how Samba presents itself to the network or how it resolves NetBIOS names:
netbios name. This option sets the NetBIOS name that the server claims. If you omit this option, it defaults to the machine name portion of your DNS host name, such as TUNESMITH if the DNS host name is tunesmith.example.com.
netbios aliases. A single computer can claim more than one NetBIOS name. To do so, you use this option, as in
netbios aliases = PRILL HALRLOPRILLALAR. These names are claimed in addition to any set via the
netbios nameoption.
workgroup. You set the workgroup or domain name with this option. For browsing and domain features to work correctly, you must set this option to the correct value. The default is
name resolve order. This parameter takes one or more of four options to control which of the four name resolution methods the programs in the Samba suite use. Although it has little practical effect on the server side, this option does affect how tools such as
smbclientresolve names.
wins server. You can specify the host names or IP addresses of computers configured to function as WINS servers with this option. Note that specifying this option does not guarantee that these servers will be consulted; the
name resolve orderoption determines that detail.
Ordinarily, the default
netbios name option
works well, and there's no need for a
netbios aliases option; however, you might want
to use one or both of these options under certain circumstances. For
instance, if you configure a Samba server to take over the duties of other
servers that you're retiring, you might want to use
netbios aliases so that the Samba server will
respond to queries directed at the retired computers' names. You might use
netbios name or
netbios aliases if you want to use a different
name for NetBIOS addressing than you do for other purposes.
To use
name resolve order, you specify one or
more of four options in a space-separated list:
lmhosts. This option refers to the /etc/samba/lmhosts file, which is described in more detail shortly.
host. This option refers to normal TCP/IP name resolution, which can include a DNS server, an /etc/hosts file, or other methods, depending on your local TCP/IP configuration.
wins. This option refers to name resolution via a WINS server. You specify the server via the
wins serveroption.
bcast. If you include this option, Samba clients will use NetBIOS broadcast name resolution.
The default
name resolve order configuration
uses the four sources in the order just specified. In many cases, this
default setting is fine; however, you might want to tweak it. For
instance, if you don't maintain an lmhosts file and want to favor NetBIOS
methods over DNS methods of name resolution, you might change it as
name resolve order = wins bcast host
If you want to use a WINS server, you should be sure to include the
wins server parameter in your configuration. If
you don't, Samba will have no way to locate the WINS server, and the
practical effect will be the same as if you had omitted
wins from the
name resolve order line.
If you want to maintain an lmhosts file, you should understand its file
format, which is similar to that of /etc/hosts. Each computer has an entry
that occupies a single line beginning with the computer's IP address and
ending with its NetBIOS name. Comment lines begin with a hash mark
#). The result might resemble the following:
# Edit this file when adding or removing machines 192.168.7.5 NESSUS 192.168.7.8 PRILL 192.168.7.56 TUNESMITH
Configuring Samba as a WINS server
In addition to Samba options that affect how it resolves NetBIOS names, you can set options that enable a Samba server to function as a WINS server:
wins support. Setting this Boolean option to
Yescauses it to function as a WINS server. The default value is
wins proxy. This Boolean option determines whether Samba will respond to broadcast requests asking about names other than its own. Setting this option to
Yes(the default is
No) can improve NetBIOS name resolution reliability if your network spans multiple subnets or if some computers are configured to use broadcasts and others to use a WINS server.
dns proxy. If this Boolean option is set to
Yes(as it is by default) and your Samba WINS server doesn't have a NetBIOS name on file that matches a lookup request, it performs a DNS lookup using the locally configured DNS settings to try to find a name.
max wins ttl. When working as a WINS server, Samba keeps information on names it has collected for a limited period of time, as determined by the client's request and this parameter. You should specify a time in seconds. The default value is
518400(6 days).
min wins ttl. This option works much like
min wins ttl, except that it sets a minimum time to store the name data. The default value is
21600(6 hours).
Ordinarily, setting
wins server = Yes is
sufficient to configure Samba as a WINS server—at least on
the Samba end. There's no automatic method for WINS clients to locate
servers, though, so you'll need to configure your clients to tell them
about the WINS server. The easiest way to do this, at least for Windows
clients, is to adjust your Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
server configuration. The popular
named server
can be configured through its dhcpd.conf file, which is normally in /etc.
You should set two options, which may already be present near the top of
the configuration file:
option netbios-name-servers 192.168.7.2; option netbios-node-type 8;
The first of these lines identifies the IP address of your Samba WINS
server. The second sets the node type, which determines which
name resolution methods are used. The values range from
1 to
8, but only
four are meaningful:
1. Clients should use broadcasts alone; that is, they function as B-nodes.
2. Clients should use the WINS server alone; that is, they function as P-nodes.
4. Clients should use broadcasts first, but, if that fails, use the WINS server. Such a client is sometimes called an M-node.
8. Clients should use the WINS server first, but, if that fails, use broadcasts. Such a client is sometimes called an H-node.
As a general rule, it makes sense to configure clients as H-nodes, so
passing a NetBIOS node type of
8 via the DHCP
server is appropriate.
Understanding browsing
In computer circles, the term browsing typically applies to the Web: We use web browsers to read websites, as you're doing now. In the context of SMB/CIFS, though, browsing means something else (although it's similar): It refers to the process of discovering what resources are available on your network. Samba, naturally, provides configuration options that affect how it interacts with clients as they perform browsing operations. To adjust these settings, though, you must understand some key browsing concepts, such as those of a master browser and of browser elections.
An overview of browsing
If you've used Windows' file-sharing features, chances are you've used browsing, which is illustrated by Figure 2. This figure shows the Computer window in Windows. In the left pane, near the bottom, a Network item reveals the computers accessible on the network—HARK, NESSUS, and WEMBLETH, in the case of Figure 2. You can click one of these computers to see the shares it's offering, click the share icons to see the files they hold, and so on.
Figure 2. Browsing enables users to quickly locate servers and shares
From the user's point of view, all of this happens automatically; but of course there's considerable effort behind the scenes to make it all work. Browsing relies on one computer, known as a master browser, to compile the lists of computers. When a client browses the network, it contacts the master browser to obtain this list. The master browser is, of course, a server. This server might not need much configuration, but if you're to avoid browsing disasters, such as browse lists that suddenly empty for no obvious reason, you must understand a bit about how browsing works.
Officially, two types of master browsers exist:
- Local master browsers. These master browsers serve a single subnet. They listen for the broadcast messages that computers use to announce themselves and claim a NetBIOS name and maintain their browse lists from these broadcasts. They also respond to broadcast queries intended to locate master browsers. Local master browsers are designated by a process known as an election, so in principle any computer can become a local master browser. (Recall that SMB/CIFS was designed for use in peer-to-peer configurations, in which all the computers function as both clients and servers.)
- Domain master browsers. Because local master browsers compile their server lists by listening for broadcast messages, they can't work across subnets—at least, not without some extra help. That's where domain master browsers come in; they communicate with local master browsers on multiple subnets and exchange browse lists, enabling computers on these different subnets to "see" each other. (This approach does create a delay in the appearance and disappearance of servers, though.) Domain master browsers must be explicitly configured as such; they aren't designated by elections. Normally, domain controllers function as domain master browsers.
Samba provides options, described in Setting Samba browsing options, that enable a local master browser to exchange browse lists with master browsers on another subnet. This can be handy if you have a multi-segment network but don't want to run a domain configuration.
Local master browsers can also have understudies, known as backup browsers. Backup browsers maintain browse lists but aren't normally called by clients. The intent is that they can take over master browser duties with current browse lists if the master browser becomes unavailable.
Master browser elections
Elections begin when a computer calls for one, which typically occurs when the former master browser isn't responding to queries; but some systems (such as Samba) can call for elections whenever they boot up or at other times. Elections typically take a few seconds to finish, during which time browsing won't work, so you shouldn't configure Samba to be too aggressive in demanding elections. The election begins when the computer that called for it broadcasts its election criteria. These criteria can be ranked, as described shortly. Any computer that has a criteria rank that beats the first one broadcasts its criteria in response. A computer that believes it's winning the election will continue to broadcast its criteria every 200-800 milliseconds until it's done so four times, at which point it claims victory and becomes the local master browser.
The criteria used in a master browser election, in order of decreasing priority, are as follows:
- Election protocol version. Multiple election protocols are theoretically possible, but to date, only version 1 has been used. Thus, although this feature could be important, in practice it's not.
- Operating system level. Each operating system has a ranking from 0 to 255 for preference. Higher operating system levels are preferred over lower levels. Most Microsoft operating systems have values between 1 and 32. It's possible to adjust Samba's operating system level, as described next, under Setting Samba browsing options.
- Primary domain controller (PDC) status. If a computer is currently a PDC, it wins over any other computer at the same operating system level and election protocol version.
- WINS server status. A computer that's currently functioning as a WINS server will win an election if other factors haven't already determined the outcome.
- Preferred master browser. A computer can be designated as a preferred master browser, which gives it a boost in the election.
- Current master browser. If the computer is currently functioning as a master browser, it receives a boost in the election.
- Former master browser. If the computer used to function as a master browser but lost a recent election and was demoted to backup browser status, it gets a small advantage in the election.
- Running backup browser. If the computer is currently the backup browser, it gets a slight edge in the election.
If an election is called and the results are a tie, two additional tie-breaking criteria may be used:
- Up time. If one computer has been running longer than the other, the longer-running machine wins.
- NetBIOS name. The computer with the first name, when sorted alphabetically, wins the election if all other criteria result in a tie.
Setting Samba browsing options
Naturally, Samba provides many options that affect its performance in browser elections and its capacity to function as a domain master browser. I describe options you can use to "rig" an election, those used to enable cross-subnet browsing, and those required to acquire domain master browser status. I also describe options you can set on Samba servers (even those that are not master browsers) to adjust the shares that users see when they browse to your computer.
Configuring Samba to win an election
Options that can affect Samba's ability to win a local master browser election include the following:
local master. When this option is set to
Yes(its default), Samba participates in local master browser elections; when set to
No, it doesn't participate at all and so cannot win an election.
os level. Samba's default
os levelvalue is
20, which is sufficient to win elections against most non-server Microsoft operating systems but not against server operating systems, which tend to have operating system levels of 32. If you want to be absolutely positive that a Samba server wins an election, you can set this value to
255, which will win against anything but another similarly configured Samba server. Don't set such an extreme option routinely, though; in a network with multiple Samba servers, one should be "rigged" to win the election.
domain logons. As described in the article on LPIC objective 312.4, this Boolean option configures a Samba server to function as a PDC, and so it also affects the server's chances in a browser election.
wins support. Because WINS server status is a factor in elections, this Boolean option can affect the outcome of elections.
preferred master. Setting this Boolean option to
Yestells Samba to call an election whenever it starts up. It also sets the preferred master browser flag used in elections. The default value is
browse list. This Boolean parameter, whose default value is
Yes, determines whether the server maintains a browse list. If it does, it can become a backup or master browser. (If you set this option to
No, Samba won't participate in elections.)
Most Samba servers work well with the default settings; they will defer to Windows Server operating systems or Samba servers that have been configured to win elections, but they'll win elections in workgroup configurations that don't contain Windows Server operating systems.
If you're experiencing browsing problems, you may want to investigate your Samba server's settings. Problems most often result from either of two conditions:
- Unreliable local master browsers. If a computer that functions as a master browser is shut down or disconnected from the network, the result is a disruption in browsing. This might happen in a peer-to-peer network with many computers at the same operating system level if users shut down their computers from time to time. In such a situation, a good solution is to configure a reliable Samba server to win the election by boosting its operating system level and perhaps changing other options.
- Too many preferred master browsers. If more than one computer is configured as a preferred master browser, the result can be repeated calls for elections, each of which disrupts browsing for a brief period. Ensure that at most one Samba server per network segment is configured as a preferred master browser. If a Windows computer is a preferred master (as when it's configured as a domain controller), ensure that no Samba server is so configured.
Enabling cross-subnet browsing in a workgroup
If your network uses a workgroup configuration but spans multiple subnets, name resolution and browsing might not work properly across the subnets. WINS server options, as described in the first half of this article, can overcome the name resolution issues. (So can using DNS for name resolution.) Browsing, though, may require using some unusual Samba-only options. One possibility is to configure a Samba WINS server as a domain master browser. You can do this in Samba without configuring a full domain, because Samba splits the relevant features into independent options. If you do this, though, you must configure a single Samba server as both the WINS server and the domain master browser; if you don't, the domain master browser won't have information on all the host names it needs to do its job.
If you can't configure one computer as both the WINS server and the domain master browser, or if you find it difficult to coax all your computers to register themselves with the WINS server, a combination of one or more of three additional parameters can help you span multiple subnets:
remote browse sync. You can specify the IP addresses of Samba servers or entire networks to this option, and Samba will exchange browse lists with those Samba servers or with the master browsers it finds on the specified networks. An important limitation of this option is that it works only with Samba servers; Samba can't exchange browser lists with Windows local master browsers using this option.
remote announce. Samba can announce its presence to a remote network by passing an IP address (including a broadcast address) and an optional workgroup name, as in
192.168.8.255/PAK, where it announces itself as a local master browser for the PAK workgroup on the 192.168.8.0/24 subnet. Unlike
remote browse sync, this option works to exchange browse lists with any type of master browser, not just Samba servers.
enhanced browsing. This Boolean option, which defaults to
Yes, causes Samba to search for and exchange browse lists with domain master browsers it finds via a WINS server or in any other way. This option can make cross-subnet browsing more reliable, but it can also keep defunct workgroups from disappearing from browse lists, so you may want to set it to
Noif you experience that problem.
As a general rule, using Samba local master browsers on each subnet and
configuring each to use
remote browse sync and
point to the other Samba servers works well to exchange browse lists
across subnets. If you don't know the exact IP address of the remote local
master browser, you can use a broadcast address, as in
192.168.8.255 to refer to the 192.168.8.0/24
Enabling domain master browser options
Normally, Samba assumes domain master browser status when you configure it
as a domain controller. You can force the issue by setting the
domain master option to
Yes. This parameter accepts Boolean values plus
its default of
Auto, which causes the domain
master browser configuration to mirror that of the
domain logins parameter, which is described in
"Learn Linux, 302 (Mixed environments):
Domain control."
Once Samba is configured as a domain controller and domain master browser,
domain members should have no problems using the server as a domain master
browser. Local master browsers in other subnets can locate the domain
master browser by using domain name lookups; such lookups contain codes to
identify the domain master browser. You can use the
remote browse sync parameter on Samba local
master browsers to further guarantee correct operation.
Be aware that browse list propagation across subnets is not instantaneous. Local master browsers need time to collect their browse lists, and they synchronize browse lists with the domain master browser every once in a while. All told, it may be several minutes before all your computers appear in the browse lists on all your subnets.
Setting local browsing options
Most of the browsing features described in this article relate to master browsers, which maintain lists of computers. For browsing to do any good, though, individual servers have to make information available on the shares they provide. The default settings normally work well; they make most shares appear in browse lists. The HOMES share is a partial exception; this share definition creates one share for each user of the computer, and that share normally appears in browse lists only for the user to whom the share belongs. You can set several options on Samba file and printer servers, even if they aren't master browsers, to adjust how local share information is shared:
preload. You can specify a list of shares that you want to be available in browse lists even if they wouldn't ordinarily be available. For instance, you might include specific users' home shares, as in
preload = LOUISto display that user's home share to all comers. This option is also called
auto services.
load printers. This Boolean option, which defaults to
Yes, determines whether printer shares created by the
PRINTERSdefinition are made available.
browseable. This Boolean option defaults to
Yesexcept for a few special share types. When set to
Yes, it makes a share visible in browse lists. Setting the value to
Nohides shares but does not make them inaccessible to users who know the share's name.
Testing NetBIOS and WINS features
Once you've configured a Samba server as a WINS server or master browser,
or even if you haven't done so, you may want to test NetBIOS name
resolution and browsing features. Samba provides a number of tools that
can help you do so. The most notable of these tools are
findsmb and
(Both of these tools rely on lower-level tools, such as
nmblookup and
smbclient, to do the "grunt work.")
findsmb program is a tool that sends out a
broadcast query for NetBIOS computers on the network and reports the
results. It's normally called with no options, although you can pass it a
subnet address to query a non-local subnet, and the
-r option corrects for a bug that's specific to
Microsoft Windows 95. The program's results resemble Listing 1.
Listing 1. Example output from findsmb
$ findsmb *=DMB +=LMB IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION --------------------------------------------------------------------- 192.168.7.1 CISCOC8231 +[ ] 192.168.7.5 NESSUS *[RINGWORLD] [Unix] [Samba 3.4.12] 192.168.7.9 HARK [RINGWORLD] [Unix] [Samba 3.5.7] 192.168.7.56 TUNESMITH +[RINGWORLD] [Unix] [Samba 3.0.28a-apple]
This output includes not just the names and IP addresses of local computers but information on their workgroups, operating systems, and Samba versions being run.
findsmb, which takes few options, the
smbtree program takes several. This program is
used to retrieve browsing information on your network. In its simplest
form, it displays a browse list similar to what you can find in a Windows
file browser (as in Figure 2) but in textual form, as
shown in Listing 2. Note that
smbtree asks for your user password; this
password is used to gain access to the share information, which many
servers won't divulge until after a successful login.
Listing 2. Example output from smbtree
$ smbtree Enter rodsmith's password: RINGWORLD \\WEMBLETH wembleth server (Samba, Ubuntu) \\WEMBLETH\IPC$ IPC Service (wembleth server (Samba, Ubuntu)) \\WEMBLETH\programs User programs \\SEEKER seeker server (Samba, Ubuntu) \\SEEKER\rodsmith Home Directories \\SEEKER\IPC$ IPC Service (seeker server (Samba, Ubuntu)) \\SEEKER\MYTHTV Home Directories \\NESSUS Nessus \\NESSUS\rodsmith Home Directories \\NESSUS\hp4000 HP4000 via Ethernet \\NESSUS\Epson_RX500 EPSON Stylus Photo RX500 \\NESSUS\IPC$ IPC Service (Nessus) \\NESSUS\cf Epson RX500 CF port \\NESSUS\floppy Floppy Drive
Most of the output from
smbtree is
self-explanatory: It identifies the workgroup or domain (RINGWORLD in this
example), the servers (WEMBLETH, SEEKER, and NESSUS in this example), and
the browseable shares on each server (along with a description, which can
be set via the
comment share option). The
IPC$ share is used to perform background tasks
and is normally hidden from users, but
exposes it.
You can add a variety of options to
smbtree to
alter its behavior. Table 1 presents the most useful
of these options. Consult the man page for
smbtree for details on more obscure options.
Table 1. Options to the smbtree command
-b or
|Makes queries by using broadcasts rather than by using the local master browser to obtain a browse list.
-D or
|Displays a list of known domains; does not display data on available servers and shares.
-S or
|Displays a list of domains and servers; does not display data on shares.
-d level or
|Sets the level of detail to be logged to log files; the default is
0, meaning little detail. Increase the
level to help debug network problems.
-N or
|Suppresses the password prompt, which may also restrict the available information.
-U username or
|Sets the user name used to access the share. You can also append a
percent sign (
%) and password, as in
teela%lucky to use teela as
the user name and lucky as the password. (Note that
lucky is a very poor password; Teela
must not worry about such things.)
-S or
|Displays a list of domains and servers; does not display data on shares.
Downloadable resources
Related topics
- Review configuring Samba as a domain controller in Rod's article "Learn Linux, 302 (Mixed environments): Domain control" (developerWorks, August 2011).
- Consult network browsing and WINS server configuration options in the Network Browsing chapter of the Samba HOWTO collection.
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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and Ancestry.com
I wasn't going to make a post today. Incredibly crazy PTA day (and night), but as I was preparing for my evening General Meeting I saw an email from Martin Kobylarczyk, the Chief of Staff for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. What did Martin tell me that made me jump right on here and share the news?
Ancestry.com will donate $1.00 to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) for every story that is shared through the app on their wall! That is truly incredible! We're genealogists! We love sharing stories about our ancestors, so let's share some stories about our military ancestors (and don't forget about the vets that are still around!).
So make sure you're logged into Facebook and then head over to the app by clicking here. There's nothing to install, but it will post the story to your Facebook wall as well. You've got 140 characters to type your memorial and click "submit". The $1.00 doesn't get donated/registered until you post to your wall. Yep, that's the catch, but seriously, with the stuff that gets posted on Facebook, well this is much nicer!
If you'd like to read more about the VVMF please check out my other blog posts about their great work. To sum up, they want to be able to put a face with every name on the Vietnam Wall by creating a virtual memorial for the brave that sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War.
At the time of this post there were 1019 people that had shared a quick 140 characters about a vet. That's $1019.00. You can also post more than once! Please pass this on. It's only underway from November 1st through Veterans Day (the 11th). It costs you nothing, but gives so much!
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It's hard to believe DmC came out this year… last January feels like a hundred years ago. Ninja Theory's game boasted their usual striking visual style, as demonstrated in these new shots from Dead End Thrills.
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I have been using VoiceThread to prepare my students for the state standardized tests. I use a flip camera and carry it around school to try to catch Math in Action. It has taken us a while to learn all of the aspects to VT but we love it!
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London's Acid Test of Diversity
The City of London has the highest murder rate in the land. While the authorities launch investigations into pork being left at a mosque or a hijab supposedly being torn off, crime continues to rise.
Gun control has worked so wonderfully well that gun crime in London rose 42%. When gun control advocates insist that we should be more like the UK, London's 2,544 gun crime offenses probably aren't what they have in mind.
But gun control does work in London after a fashion. Those gang members who can't lay their hand on a firearm must make do with a sharp blade. Knife crimes in London rose 24% to 12,074 recorded offences. 60 people were stabbed to death last year.
Why? Here's a hint from the Metropolitan Police's assistant commissioner. "There are complex social reasons why more young people are carrying knives and this cannot be solved by the police alone."
Those complex social reasons would seem to involve stabbing other people. But like Islamic terrorism, stabbings in London are one of those things that can't be solved by the police. Unlike people saying mean things about Muslims on Facebook and Twitter which the Met cops are well equipped to solve.
Still the authorities have been doing their best to tackle stabbings with a knife ban. Carry a knife without a "good reason" and you can get four years in prison. Good reasons for carrying knives include using it as a prop in a production of Romeo and Juliet, taking it to a museum or "religious reasons". The ban, which covers "sword-sticks", samurai swords and "zombie knives" that are sold to fight zombies, isn't working.
But it's working well enough that many of the gangs responsible for the violence are turning to acid.
Acid attacks in London rose from 162 in 2012 to 454 last year. There have already been 199 acid attacks this year. Five acid attacks just happened in London in the space of little more than an hour.
And so the obvious new solution is drain cleaner control.
The push is on to "license" corrosive substances while banning anyone from carrying drain cleaner unless they have a good reason. When the public is banned from buying drain cleaners, then finally everyone in London will be safe. It's worked for guns and knives. Bound to work for acid. And being stuck with a clogged toilet, like Allah Akbar car rammings, is the price we must all pay for diversity.
It's easy to blame and ban inanimate objects. And it avoids any discussion of the perpetrators.
Newham is the London borough with the highest number of acid attacks. It also has the second highest percentage of Muslims in the UK. 398 acid attacks occurred in 5 years in the area named as "the most ethnically diverse district in England and Wales". 33% of Newham consists of non-UK passport holders.
But surely that's some sort of random coincidence.
Except that the place with the third highest number of acid attacks is Tower Hamlets. Tower Hamlets is a Muslim no-go zone. It has one of the smallest native British populations in the country. 35% of the population is Muslim. Most of those are Bangladeshis with a healthy sprinkling of Somalis.
There were 84 acid attacks in what has been dubbed "The Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets".
Also, entirely by coincidence, Bangladesh has the highest rate of acid attacks in the world. But if anyone suggests that these two statistics are related, the Met police will investigate them for hate crimes.
The second highest acid attack location in London was Barking and Dagenham, a growing Muslim enclave which elected its first Muslim mayor whose plans include holding an Islamic festival "for the whole community—regardless of religion".
Barking is a wonderful place where you have the choice to be Muslim or Muslim. Regardless of religion.
The native British population made up 80% of Barking in 2001. Now it's fallen to less than half. According to the 2011 census figures, "All religious groups have increased except for Christian and Jewish religions". This was where Islamists brandished signs reading, "British soldiers go to hell".
Now why in the world might Barking be a haven for acid attacks?
Fifth on the acid list is Redbridge where the native British population fell by 40,844 in a decade. The last census showed British and Irish natives fleeing Redbridge while Pakistanis and Bangladeshis stormed in. The Christian and Jewish population fell while the Muslim population rose 11%. So did the acid attacks.
Pakistan has one of the highest rate of acid attacks in the world. It lags behind Bangladesh. But fortunately Redbridge boasts a diversity of both Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. And acid attacks.
But surely this is yet another unfathomable coincidence. Like 2 + 2 equaling 4.
Hackney, sixth on the list, was where a Sharia patrol pal of the Muslim beheaders of British soldier Lee Rigby, posted videos boasting "British people will never be safe on the streets of London."
They certainly aren't safe in Hackney.
At 14%, Islam is the second largest religious group in Hackney. The indigenous British population has fallen to 36%. That's down from 44% in 2001. And, according to officials, it's "reflective of Hackney's increasing diversity which currently marks it out as the 6th most ethnically diverse borough in London after Newham, Redbridge, etc…"
Sixth in diversity and sixth in acid attacks.
Of the remaining four on the list, three, Croydon, Ealing and Hilingdon, were white minority or bare majority areas. Meanwhile Kensington and Chelsea, which have a decisive majority, have the lowest rate of acid attacks. So naturally the media has tried to blame the attacks on British natives.
But the numbers don't lie.
London is experiencing a splash of the acid test of diversity. That burning feeling on your face is the thrilling sensation of corrosive multiculturalism eating away at British communities.
Banning guns, knives, drain cleaner, plungers and ostrich feathers won't address the problem. The fallacy of gun control, knife control and acid control is that inanimate objects don't kill people.
Guns don't shoot themselves. Knives don't unsheathe in broad daylight and stab pedestrians. Bottles of acid don't knock on cars and then splash the occupants when they roll down the window.
Immigration imported acid attacks to the UK the way that it imported gangs of Muslim men stabbing waitresses in eateries while shouting, "This is for Allah".
Allah and acid are both imports from the Muslim world.
Murders in London, like murders in most major American cities, are driven by gang violence. Behind the shootings, stabbings and acid attacks are gangs. Many of those gangs are made up of first and second generation migrants and settlers from the Muslim world. The UK's prisons bulge with Muslim convicts. And these criminal gangs naturally feed recruits into Islamic terrorism as they do in Iraq and Syria.
Banning drain cleaner won't stop acid attacks. Drain cleaner control is no solution. Migration control is.
Immigration from violent societies prone to terrorism is the acid that is eating away at Europe. Migration advocates have splashed acid on Britain, on America, on Australia and on Canada. The bombings and stabbings, the child rapes and acid attacks, are the burning sensation of the attack.
But the corrosive acid does its work in less sensational ways. When Britons no longer feel at home in their own communities, when mosques replace churches and synagogues, when Sharia patrols march through the streets, when English is drowned out by Urdu and Arabic in the streets, that is also the acid of immigration eating away at the flesh and bone of a nation.
Acid attacks don't immediately kill. They maim and disfigure. Newham, Barking, Tower Hamlets and so much of London have been left maimed and disfigured so that longtime residents no longer know them.
Britannia has had acid splashed in her lovely face. Her clear features have been scarred and mutilated. Now, from London to Manchester, from Birmingham to Bradford, she suffers and burns.
37 comments:
- Infidel said...
I think I've thanked you elsewhere for this brilliant article. On rereading, one small point that struck me, was that advocates of gun control, saying we should emulate London or various other locations, are anachronistic, referring to a London or a Sweden or wherever, that no longer exists. Now they are the ones that need to copy us, arming their police, and allowing law abiding citizens to defend themselves.
Of course, Rudy Giuliani showed the way long ago. No revolutionary new ideas needed, just already well-known best practices.
- 19/7/17
- Infidel said...
Interesting that "increase in diversity" has become a new euphemism for "white flight".
- 19/7/17
- Unknown said...
That is powerful.
- 19/7/17
- LondonMale said...
1 - Pedantic I know, but when writing "The City of London" it means only the square mile which is mainly the financial district with only 12,500 residents, controlled by the Corporation of London. The correct phrase is "Greater London."
2 - There is no indigenous British population as far as anyone can tell. London, founded by Roman invaders, has always been a city of immigration. But there is falling white population in Greater London, and Arabic shopfront writing is in abundance.
3 - The acid attacks fall into two categories, which the mainstream media have yet to realise. There are a lot of Muslim acid attacks, mainly by rejected lovers etc. It is part of their culture.
But the gang attacks are influenced by Jamaican gang culture, as well as being a response to police clamping down on gun ownership.
4 - Tower Hamlets is a London Borough. There is a huge Bengali and Somali population in it, and their youths cause problems for sure. But it is not a "No-go area." I am there every week and walk and drive around without trouble. There are though, like most large cities, certain estates (projects) where one does not readily enter.
- 19/7/17
- Anonymous said...
Violence by all means is intuitive to London's Muslims. No hesitation or remorse. Meanwhile, native English dither in the face of blatant murderous attack. Every predator recognizes weakness as an invitation to dinner. Enoch Powell was right.
- 20/7/17
- Nancy Assaf said...
Daniel, I hope that somehow your entertaining yet erudite article makes it's way to the Court judges who at every turn try to obfuscate the laws of immigration and the temporary travel ban that the President has ordered. In all honesty, however, I don't understand how our Govt. can realistically determine actual family members of these refugees. I mean, what? Do they carry birth certificates? Are the certificates even real?
- 20/7/17
- PatD said...
@LondonMale 'there is no indigenous British population as far as..' If I may quote from the Diversity Illusion by Ed West...
At the end of the Second World War over 70% of British DNA dated back more than 6,000 years on these islands and between them the Celts, Anglo Saxons, Vikings and Normans made less of a genetic impact than post war immigration has. Genetically the generation born the year Britain hosted the 1948 Olympics may have been closer to the Britain of 4,000 BC, before work on Stonehenge was begun, than the generation born during the 2012 Olympic Games; the DNA of the British people has been changed more in one lifetime than in the previous 6,000 years.
The sad state we are in!
- 20/7/17
- Clorinda said...
I lived in London when I was a kid. I used to adore the place. Now, I would not go there for all the gold in the world.
I love it when people like LondonMale try to apologize for Islam by saying things like:" There are a lot of Muslim acid attacks, mainly by rejected lovers etc. It is part of their culture."
And that is the culture that leftists and multiculturalists all over the world are falling over to bring into their countries. "Yes, by all means, let's introduce the custom of dousing your ex with acid when she throws you over. That'll teach her." I believe it's what the multiculturalists call "cultural enrichment." To paraphrase Scrooge, "I retired to bedlam."
I will never understand this Western obsession with pandering to, apologizing for, bending over to, and generally justifying the horror that is Islam. I mean, it's one thing to be compassionate towards the needy, no matter where they come from. But this totally subservient attitude to Islam by Western world lefties and multiculturalists; this hysteria they go into whenever anyone makes the slightest criticism of Islam - just to name two things - is simply not normal.
Which begs the question, what's it all (REALLY) about? Some say the extermination of the white race. Others say it's reparations for perceived past imperialistic transgressions. And others allude to the obliteration of Western culture because it's a symbol of the afore-mentioned imperialism, of white supremacy, etc., etc.
I used to laugh at all that and call it conspiracy theories of the most pronounced description. Now, I am not so sure. Sherlock Holmes said it better, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
In any case, this world has gone bonkers, and personally, I am glad I am not young anymore. I am even gladder that I never had children. I would not want my daughter to be forced to wear a burka and risk having acid sloshed on her by a disgruntled ex suitor. In my book, that sort of thing should NEVER be part of any civilization worthy of the name.
- 20/7/17
- Rex.... said...
LondonMale?... picking nits while Rome burns.It's getting harder and harder to not surrender to Nihilism.
- 20/7/17
- stacey said...
@ Pat D. What you say makes sense as I seem to recall that people often referred to Brits as "inbred", i.e. not a great deal of genetic mixing due to being an island population etc...
- 20/7/17
- LondonMale said...
You have libelled me.
My comments of acid attacks being a part of Islamic culture, which I must specify, I meant Pakistani and Anglo-Pakistani culture, are a critcism of said culture.
Neither am I left wing.
If I read an article which contains inaccuracies, it is fair game to correct the inaccuracies. especially when it is written by someone outside of London commenting on what happens in London.
- 20/7/17
- Mario Ciani said...
You've got it all wrong, people.
Just fall into line, imbibe the new koranic kulture.
As the esteemed mayor has already reminded you (I freely paraphrase): London is a global city, stuff happens, get used to it [sarcasm totally intended].
- 20/7/17
- Brian Richard Allen said...
When Judeo-Christian/Western/Human civilization's governance has been allowed to fall into the hands of the Malignantly Envious and that gang's effective hesperophobia has effected its treasonous "weaponization" of migration and the replacement of ordered immigration and mandated assimilation with alien invasion and hostile colonization?
Who will be the modern Edward Gibbon?
And, more importantly in this, headed-one-way-into-a-new-Dark-Ages, post-Christian era?
Who will be Left who can - let alone may - read?
Brian Richard Allen
- 21/7/17
- Brian Richard Allen said...
.... that sort of thing should NEVER be part of any civilization worthy of the name ....
And, New York City to a single brick, on? It never will.
B A.: - L A - CA -- and The Very Far Away
- 21/7/17
- Brian Richard Allen said...
.... I will never understand (the fascist-Left's) obsession with pandering to, apologizing for, bending over to, and generally justifying the horror that is Islam ....
Malignant-Envy-driven, self, own-culture and inevitably and invariably, own-species-loathing. Effective Psychopathic Hesperophobia.
Ask me a hard one.
- 21/7/17
- Anonymous said...
I can only imagine how mass Moslem migration to an area affects rents and property values. Of course that in turn only makes it easier for more Moslem migration to those areas -- thus cementing it's status as a Shari'a compliant neighborhood. A civilisation busily heaping up its own funeral pyre certainly describes Northwestern Eurabia as well as North America in the 21st century.
Thank you for this article Mr. Greenfield.
- 21/7/17
- Whoopie said...
Now the British government wants to impose heavy penalties on people who throw acid. Ironically, there was a time when throwing acid was a capital offense punishable by hanging.
- 21/7/17
- Just a common 'tater said...
Thank you Daniel for posting this. I suspected there was connection between the acid attacks and the cultural enrichment going on in Greater London.
Clorinda: I suspect that the leftists and so-called progressives are so supportive of these invaders from the hell-holes run by the religion we dare not name because they hate everything Western Europe, the USA, and certain commonwealth countries became. We disprove, by our mere existence that the socialist/communist utopias are really police and slave states. So, I suspect that they support those that would destroy us while thinking that leftists & progressives will rush in to fill the void after we beat each other to pieces.
Nancy: You hit the nail on the head. In many of these third world countries, even ones that we think are more advanced and westernized, some cash under the table will buy you just about any document you need saying what you need it to say. Birth certificate? No problem. Police report showing no criminal history? Got it. Public records report showing no previous marriage or a dead spouse, annulment, or divorce? Name it, you got it. Need an embossed and raised seal? Sure thing.
We are the exception to the rule. We have rule of law, and in theory at least, all are equal under the law and there are no short cuts or favorites. Outside of these few countries, graft, corruption, nepotism, and elitism are the SOP.
- 21/7/17
- Infidel said...
Very good and clever double entendre in the title, by the way.
- 22/7/17
- Dr Yuval said...
The Brits, and French and Germans and Swedes are in a real bind. Since 1948, and even more so since 1967, they have all reiterated that Islamic violence is actually the struggle for freedom from the malevolent clutches of Political Zionism. Not judaism of course. judaism is cannonized since the white-engendered holocaust , but Zionism. the political expression of jewish self-determination, is certainly evil, exonerating all violence directed at it. So now, when the very same is applied to them, with the very same reasoning, they find it difficult not to absolve it in the same manner. Even the leftist hare-brained is unable to say "to kill the Zionist is fine but to kill white post colonnial me is not. Western Europe has bitten its own bait, and is now dragged to extinction with its own reel of lies and Jew-hatred. It is no coincidence that resistance to Islamization among non-Jews goes hand in hand with appreciation for the fight Zionism has put up against this evil ideology. London must suffer for its perfidy which encouraged the Nazis to eliminate the Jews - and it does, and its only the bare beginnings.
- 23/7/17
- Dr Yuval said...
the DNA of the British people has been changed more in one lifetime than in the previous 6,000 years.
43 years ago I lived in England for a couple of years as a teen ager. Coming from a former rebelious colony, Israel, to an English Grammar School, I was assigned a sixth form mentor. He was tall, impeccably dressed in school shirt, tie and jacket (Wallingford) and ebony-black. He was more English than the English, and treated me with thinly veiled superiority evinced by the unschooled. I did not cause much trouble, and he went on to Oxford. It is not the DNA which makes the Englishness. Its the Culture, and the English are allowing their culture to rot from within.
- 23/7/17
- Anonymous said...
Perhaps it's time for an old fashion EXORCIST. This make's me want to walk down the streets of London dressed as a priest Throwing Holy Water on these EVIL Zombies. :)
- 23/7/17
- Unknown said...
Clorinda (20/07/2017) an excellent comment. Until 5 years ago I went along with the prevailing "Religion of Peace" mantra, because I believed that Islam was an Abrahamic "religion" with very similar origins to Christianity and Judaism.
However, my son started dating a wonderful Muslim girl (whose family immediately disowned her) and then ISIS happened. Our Politicians and Church Elders (such as The Pope) constantly intoned that "Islam was a Religion of Peace" and that there was a corrupted version of Islam doing the rounds. I was curious and tried my very best to read about the Qur'an and Hadiths and in doing so was absolutely stunned.
Erdogan has said - there is no such thing as moderate and fundamental Islam only moderate and fundamental muslims. That is the truth.
The Left (I used to be extreme Left) supports Islamist multiculturalism because their ideologies superficially share similar goals such as the destruction of The West (which is based upon "corrupt" Judeo-Christian" values), and open borders under one Government. The Left and their media allies intends using the Islamist as their agents to destroy us and at which point The Left will take over.
In their dreams! The Islamists love death because it is the only way that they can surely gain Paradise. They will devour The Left alive as soon as they can.
For once I am glad to be towards the end of my life because we are now on the cusp of WWIII aided and abetted by a compliant Establishment (Political, Religious and Media) who seem to believe that by appeasing Islam that the beast will eventually be tamed.
Their prophet said that he had spread Islam through terror - terror works.
I am now afraid to visit London. I have medical appointments there which I continually reschedule because I feel so uncomfortable there. Mr Corbyn and his Marxist friends seem to rejoice in the situation.
- 23/7/17
- D.D.Mao said...
Perhaps this can explain things:
The Right distrust the Middle East
The Left distrust the Middle Class
- 23/7/17
- PatD said...
@Stacey Gordon - 'inbred'. I did read once that if you are a true British person then you are distantly related to everyone else of the same status. I can believe this. It is only in the last century or so that people have been able to move around the world en masse. Nevertheless it never stopped us being the most successful nation of all time at one point with a population a fraction of what it is now. Those were the days as they say.
- 24/7/17
- Brian Richard Allen said...
.... It is not the which makes the Englishman, its the Culture. And the English have allowed their culture to rot from within ....
Same was true for the product of the American Melting Pot. E pluribus unum. We own no "magic dirt." Being American is not an accident of birth nor the consequence of one having traveled here. It's a state of mind. As this former immigrant, (and as the consequence entitled-to-hyphenation) AMERICAN-American, knows well.
- 26/7/17
- Brian Richard Allen said...
.... the "white-engendered" Holocaust ....
Of 100% Gael/Celt descent, I am often suspected and/or accused of being "white." But am not, thank God, German -- nor Austrian -- nor any of those other, as-awful, Holocaust-assistant Europeons. And would (and especially while we're talking about Culture) appreciate responsibility for the Holocaust being more closely laid at the feet of those who perpetrated it!
- 26/7/17
- PatD said...
Dr. Yuval. Your description of the black sixth former that you met is a very narrow, stereotypical view of being English. The black student was just mirroring a particular aspect. If I adopted Israeli culture would I be viewed as Israeli? Culture runs deep, I could never be Israeli and the black student was not English.
- 26/7/17
- Brian Richard Allen said...
PatD: With respect to the assimilated "black" Englishman, it's likely fair to say that his presence in England and that of several million other folk of every imaginable hue and color and multiculturally-guaranteed-to-be-separate-but-equal ethnicity is evidence (apart from and in addition to every other) there is no more "England." And never will be.
Israel, on the other hand, has always welcomed immigrants of every imaginable hue and color and has gone to great lengths to see to their assimilation -- and remains Israel. Pretty much as America used to, when Theodore Roosevelt's influence (as expressed below) was still felt in the land:
QUOTE: "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here and that is the English language -- and we have room for but one sole loyalty -- and that is a loyalty to the American People." END QUOTE.
-- Theodore Roosevelt 1907
- 26/7/17
- stacey said...
@Pat D...
Alas, while there may have been a smaller gene pool for the British, there is no genetic predisposition to being "American".
Whereas, you could move to France, learn perfect French and perhaps even become a French citizen, but you could never hope to become a "Frenchman".
But America is different. America is an idea. Perhaps there is nothing and no one more American than a legal immigrant taking the oath of citizenship.
America is a nation of people who "became" Americans because "America" is not about who your parents are, or what your genes are, but what your ideals and values are.
America IS a nation of immigrants who, at one time in our history, held these notions precious. And while it has not been a perfect place, for some, it is a place that worked to become better. They came from all over the world, from different cultures because of what they held in common-the desire to be free and to become part of the of the great experiment. The current flow of immigrants (with some exceptions) hold no such values dear. They are not coming here to become part of this nation, to contribute to its glory; they are here to conquer, to drain it dry, and while doing so, to make it more like the hell hole nations they left behind.
- 27/7/17
- PatD said...
@Brian Richard Allen and @ Stacey Gordon....I agree with most of what you both say. I read quite a lot on the internet now as the MSM are left biased beyond belief, you cannot get an organisation more anti British than the BBC. It would seem that most European countries now face 'extinction' if that is not too strong a word. Even in America it seems that California will soon be Spanish speaking. Some American views I have read have already written the State off. I never used to believe in conspiracy theories but some group or other has been conspiring against us all for a very long time. In pessimistic mode I agree with your view, Stacey Gordon, that we, Europe and America, will be 'more like the hell hole nations they left behind'.
- 28/7/17
- Brian Richard Allen said...
.... America is different. America is an idea. Perhaps there is nothing and no one more American than a legal immigrant taking the oath of citizenship ....
Spot on. I became an American by state of mind, in that I comprehended and loved the Declaration before I was five. My qualifying for "hyphenated status" occurred much later, when I was naturalized -- and, on the Very Best Day Of My Life, became an AMERICAN-American!
I'd respectfully beg to differ about America being and/or having ever been a "nation of immigrants," though. We are a nation of the assimilated. The product of the Melting Pot. E pluribus unum. From many ONE!
Does it work? Many of those who fought in World Wars One and Two spoke English with with thick German and other European accents -- and Japanese. The 442nd Infantry Regiment, composed almost entirely of American soldiers of Japanese ethnicity. was the bravest and most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of American warfare.
- 29/7/17
- stacey said...
@Brian Richard Allen: "Immigrant"... well I guess that word doesn't mean what it used to mean. They had to get here first, in order to assimilate, so I thought that made them immigrants, but yes, we must be assimilated. I have often thought about the WWII situation you describe. Many German and Italian, Japanese immigrants as well as 1st generation enlistees fought in their ancestral homes for the idea of what they had become. Pretty amazing. Now, just the opposite occurs.
- 31/7/17
- YouSoldTheLand said...
Yeah... That should make people better...
- 5/8/17
- YouSoldTheLand said...
Exactly. And our demise is a new cancer from within.
- 5/8/17
- Anonymous said...
@PatD..."It would seem that most European countries now face 'extinction' if that is not too strong a word. Even in America it seems that California will soon be Spanish speaking. Some American views I have read have already written the State off. I never used to believe in conspiracy theories but some group or other has been conspiring against us all for a very long time."
Besides the Native Indians, Calif. was Spanish speaking since it belonged to Mexico until 1848, with the signing of the, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Might as well be part of Mexico these days, since in many areas you will hear Spanish more than English. 'Mexifornia', as some people call it.
Many people use the phrase, 'no-one is illegal', meaning anyone should be able to come here if they feel like it, illegal or not. It's so darn godly to be so progressive you know.
And shame on 'white' people for being so horrible to the Indians and Mexicans. 'White' people of European ancestry should keep feeling terribly ashamed and just role over and play dead, since they are from immigrant stock too. How dare they make rules about legality.
It's no conspiracy. It's all been quite out in the open for a long time.
State politicos are making California a 'sanctuary state', Ugh!
Viva Mexifornia!
- 15/8/17
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At 8:24pm, [Pope] Francis, preceded by the Cross, appeared at the Loggia of the brightly lit Vatican Basilica. Before imparting the "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) apostolic blessing, he greeted the enormous crowd that had been gathering all afternoon in cold and rainy St. Peter's Square saying:
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Good evening. You know that the duty of the Conclave was to give Rome a bishop. It seems that my brother cardinals picked him from almost the ends of the earth. . . .
And now let us begin this journey, bishop and people, this journey of the Church of Rome, which is the one that leads all the churches in charity. A journey of fraternity, of trust between us. Let us always pray for one another. Let us pray for the world so that this might be a great brotherhood. I hope that this journey of the Church that we begin today, . . .will be fruitful . . ."
. . . first I ask a favour of you. Before the bishop blesses the people, I ask that you pray to the Lord that He bless me: the prayer of the people asking a blessing for their bishop. Let us pray in silence, this your prayer for me. . . ."
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In the above first words spoken by Pope Francis "to the city and the world," there is one theme which stands out: the theme of the "journey." He mentions the word four times.
Secondly, he speaks of himself as coming from "almost the ends of the earth." This can be taken literally as a nod to his native country of Argentina, which is nearer to the South Pole than to the Vatican, south of the equator and within the Americas–the "New World," where no pope has journeyed from before.
I would say that it could also refer to the "ends" of the economic spectrum, within the Third World, or worse—within the poor—within the heart of poverty. He uses the word "charity" as a goal in which he, as pope, will lead "all the churches."
He speaks as much of we the people as he speaks of himself, or the Vatican. He speaks of "trust between us . . . for one another . . . a great brotherhood." He then asks from "the people . . . your prayer for me."
From these first words spoken to the city and the world by Pope Francis, I foresee a pope in tune with the poor, with poverty in the Third World.
I see a pope who wishes to unite those of wealth and power in the "First World" with those of little or nothing—"a great brotherhood" of trust "for one another." A perilous and mindful descent for many, indeed!
There is much secularism in "the city and the world." Much Sodomic perversion that has spread like a back-alley addiction through all forms and families of human life.
There is much distrust, even hatred, for the Roman Catholic faith and for the Vatican hierarchy.
Will he lead those, who have danced to a different piper away from the church, back into the "great brotherhood?"
Will he lead full-blown capitalists and power-brokers to "charity" toward those who suffer poverty?
Will he bring together those of other faiths into the "brotherhood" as trustees of one another's differences?
I stand with hope, but we will see, in moving forward, on this quite mysterious journey.
Please see the following previous blogs of mine for further info on the significance of the Roman Catholic Church recently and throughout history.:
Pope Francis: His First Homily: the Journey – Walking, Building, Professing (15 March 2013)
Cardinal Takes Over for Bishop and Advances on King (8 March 2012)
The President Caves to Georeligious Powers on Obamacare (10 February 2012)
Georeligious Power: A Paris Revolution. A Polish Revolution. An American Revolution? (30 January 2012)


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