On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 06:39, Paul Creager wrote:> My main interest in Samba is its use as a replacement for Microsoft WINS
> servers. From what I've read, it looks to me like WINS replication is
a low
> priority for the Samba team - is this observation correct? What are the
> chances that Samba will be able to:
>
> A) Replicate the WINS database from/to a Microsoft WINS server?
> or
> B) Replicate the WINS database from/to another Samba server?
>
> Ideally, we would like to replace aging Microsoft WINS servers with new
> servers running RHEL 3 and Samba, provided there is some form of
> replication. Thanks in advance for any input.
It's a matter of development time, and you are correct it is a low
priority. We had a start on it in Samba 3.0, but it was never fully
decoded.
Beside patches from some outside interested party, I have seen no
indications this is likely to change in the near future.
Sorry,
Andrew Bartlett
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Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net
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