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...ver entries >> >> If the WINS servers are not synchronized, then you won't get valid results >> if you query a second WINS server if the first one fails. That's the >> problem with disjoint name spaces. >> >> If they *are* synced... then who knows what garblage the broken WINS >> server would be sending to the backups. Again, there is no way of knowing >> if you are getting correct answers since the authoritative source is >> messed up. >> >> The only other way that this would work is to have all clients use two >&gt...

remember this? On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 11:23:59PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: > The 'wins server' parameter will take a comma separated list of > addresses or > names, but at present it will only use the first. The code is there to > allow Samba to fail over to the second, etc. if connections to the first > start to time out (indicating that the first WINS server