Everybody encourages Samba admins to enable WINS whenever possible, and I agree that it helps a lot to solve these networks' problems. It's so good that, when it fails, it's a disaster. How are people coping with the samba limitation of not being able to replicate the WINS database and thus its inability to have more than one WINS server in a domain?
> Subject: [Samba] The "single WINS" problem > > Everybody encourages Samba admins to enable WINS whenever possible, and > I agree that it helps a lot to solve these networks' problems. It's so > good that, when it fails, it's a disaster. > > How are people coping with the samba limitation of not being able to > replicate the WINS database and thus its inability to have more than one > WINS server in a domain? >I'm in a hybrid environment using both linux and Windows, and I prefer not to use WINS. It would mess up the DDNS environment I currently have set up, since at some point Windows still gives WINS a higher priority over DNS. Linux, of course, doesn't really care ;) Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -- kanarip
Em Quinta 24 Novembro 2005 18:17, Andreas Hasenack escreveu:> Everybody encourages Samba admins to enable WINS whenever possible, and > I agree that it helps a lot to solve these networks' problems. It's so > good that, when it fails, it's a disaster. > > How are people coping with the samba limitation of not being able to > replicate the WINS database and thus its inability to have more than one > WINS server in a domain?Nobody else? :(
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 08:18 -0200, Andreas Hasenack wrote:> Em Segunda 28 Novembro 2005 01:24, Marcus White escreveu: > > Are you replicating the LDAP database to each network? > > I am. Is there some sort of ldap backend for wins? ;)The idea was actually tossed about for a moment a few years back, but the semantics (particularly in the single-master openldap modal most deploy samba with) just were not right. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20051128/ab462fe0/attachment.bin