samba - Jan 2008 - More then one wins server on a network.

Can some explain to me why its bad to have more then one wins samba wins
server on a subnet.  I have two different domains on one subnet and want
to have each domain control be its own wins server.


Thanks again.


Dom

If all your machines are on the same subnet you don't really need WINS.
The problem becomes one of making sure that all the machines on
different subnets that want to see each other in browse lists use the
same WINS server.

Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
> Can some explain to me why its bad to have more then one wins samba wins
> server on a subnet.  I have two different domains on one subnet and want
> to have each domain control be its own wins server.
> 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
> Dom
>

Well,

  I disabled broadcasting on both of my different domains, and I was under
the impression that you have to have Netbios over TCP/IP for Samba.  So
in order for one node to know where the other is I use wins.  Now each
domain controller has there own wins server because I don't allow one
cross domain communication.   Now do I still not need wins?  And if I
do, is have one on each domain, is that going to be a problem?

Dom
> If all your machines are on the same subnet you don't really need WINS.
> The problem becomes one of making sure that all the machines on
> different subnets that want to see each other in browse lists use the
> same WINS server.
>
> Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
>> Can some explain to me why its bad to have more then one wins samba
wins
>> server on a subnet.  I have two different domains on one subnet and
want
>> to have each domain control be its own wins server.
>>
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>>
>> Dom
>>
>