samba - Dec 2010 - Multinetwork environment without WINS server

samba 4!!!

Greetings
Daniel

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:58:16 +0200, Alex Domoradov <alex.hha at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there any way to use samba as pdc in multinetwork environment without
> WINS server? In this case (without wins), how will computers find pdc?

Is there any way to use samba as pdc in multinetwork environment without
WINS server? In this case (without wins), how will computers find pdc?

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>> Is there any way to use samba as pdc in multinetwork environment 
>> without
>> WINS server? In this case (without wins), how will computers find pdc?
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Sure...LMHosts files on all the workstations.  Kinda messy.  You could 
allow the NETBios traffic to run wild on your network...with local 
workstations becoming local browse masters. All kinda messy.  WINS was 
the first attempt to really deal with this problem.  It works well 
enough with samba as a WINS server.  If you have any old Windows 
server around, it might be easier to do, especially if you have 2 of 
them and want to distribute load a bit and have replication.

Guess it really depends on how big your network is.
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2010/12/23  <tms3 at tms3.com>:
>>> Is there any way to use samba as pdc in multinetwork environment
without
>>> WINS server? In this case (without wins), how will computers find
pdc?
>>> --
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> Sure...LMHosts files on all the workstations. ?Kinda messy.
Refer to the KB150800: Domain Browsing with TCP/IP and LMHOSTS Files
 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150800/en-us where you will find how to
setup your LMHOSTS files.

You will use shared LMHOSTS file using #INCLUDE method: KB102725
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102725/en-us
> ?You could allow
> the NETBios traffic to run wild on your network...with local workstations
> becoming local browse masters. All kinda messy.
WINS can not reduce the traffic about NetBIOS browsing, which always use
broadcasts regardless of WINS.

But WINS can reduce the traffic about NetBIOS name resolution, using unicast
to WINS servers instead of broadcasts.

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at samba.gr.jp>

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 22:58 +0200, Alex Domoradov wrote:
> Is there any way to use samba as pdc in multinetwork environment without
> WINS server? In this case (without wins), how will computers find pdc?
The way i did this was to run one PDC on each network, all using
replicas of the same OpenLDAP tree.  Samba3 isn't bound by the 'one
PDC'
requirement, except within a NetBIOS scope.

Otherwise, as has been suggested, you can run Samba4 as an AD domain
controller. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.