Is there anyway to replicate WINS in an all Samba environment? Or is there another way of accomplishing this? Like just DNS...
I would think you could just use DNS. DNS will be used instead of WINS, right? -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Nelson [mailto:pnelson@neatech.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:29 PM To: Samba List Subject: [Samba] Can we have a WINS Is there anyway to replicate WINS in an all Samba environment? Or is there another way of accomplishing this? Like just DNS... -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Samba can be made into a WINS server by simply uncommenting a few lines in the default config, trivial really. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Nelson" <pnelson@neatech.com> To: "Samba List" <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:29 PM Subject: [Samba] Can we have a WINS> Is there anyway to replicate WINS in an all Samba environment? Or is > there another way of accomplishing this? Like just DNS... > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > >
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 12:30, Brandon Lederer wrote:> I would think you could just use DNS. DNS will be used instead of WINS, > right? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Nelson [mailto:pnelson@neatech.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:29 PM > To: Samba List > Subject: [Samba] Can we have a WINS > > > Is there anyway to replicate WINS in an all Samba environment? Or is > there another way of accomplishing this? Like just DNS... >Hmmm... DNS would be totally acceptable. Might have to convert over all of the WINS stuff to the DNS server but sounds good. So drop the entry of wins server from smb.conf. Testing now.