George Gallen
1998-Sep-15 14:51 UTC
can samba be a wins server as well as use a wins server
We are using samba as daemons and not via inetd. Currently, we have our Digital Unix system setup to use the WINS server on an NT system (which runs the PC network). This works fine. I want to setup a group of PC's (using a different workgroup), can the samba server act as a WINS server for this group, but not act as a WINS server for it's own workgroup? I don't wan't to use the NT for these PC's (in case the NT network goes down, these PC's will still need to share data..The unix machine is not directly on the NT network, so it would be able to connect to these PC with the NT network down). Do I need to run a second instance of samba, using a different configuration file and different log locations? Or is there a way to setup the samba server to only act as a WINS server if the primary (NT) server is down? Lastly, can the samba server on the Digital Unix machine be in two different workgroups? would I just say WORKGROUP = name1, name2? The digital Unix samba is p16. Would upgrading the p19 allow the above? Thanx George Gallen ggallen@slackinc.com