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I have a couple of Samba boxes, one of which is dedicated to WINS. The other I dole out anti-virus stuff to 3,500 odd PCs from. This second one will disappear from the WINS server from time to time which is a bit of a pain. I use nmblookup -R -U <wins_ip> <2nd_box_ip> to test for it. All clients are configured as "P" nodes so WINS is a bit essential. To bring it back I do a smb stp smb start and off it goes. Now this is fine as far as it goes but any PCs updating at that time can get a little upset. There are 500 odd smbd running at any one tim...