I've been reading Chapter 9 ("Network Browsing") of the Official
Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, and the documentation is
causing me some confusion.
Up at the very top of the chapter, it says:
WINS is the best tool for resolution of NetBIOS names to
IP addresses; however, WINS is not involved in browse list
handling except by way of name-to-address resolution.
But then there is a whole section in this chapter called "WINS:
The Windows Internetworking Name Server". If the two aren't
related[1], then why is WINS covered in the browsing chapter?
Is this just a quirk of the way the documentation is laid out,
or does it imply there is a closer connection between browsing
and WINS?
I think it is the former, but it gets a little confusing,
particularly when the same chapter is discussing two different
types of synchronization: synchronization between LMBs and DMBs
(which Samba *does* support -- I think) and also discussing
synchronization of data between WINS servers (which Samba does
*not* support).
- Logan
[1] except that browse servers use WINS name services to
find each other, but then lots of other things use WINS
to find each other, so that's hardly a special situation.
