[Samba] really tough question about wins database

Bradley W. Langhorst brad at langhorst.com
Wed Oct 2 16:07:42 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 11:48, jason wrote:
> I installed from sources. Ive searched for wins.dat and didnt find it
> anywhere else. The windows boxes on this network are pointing to this
> linux box as their wins server. what exactly should I look for in the nmbd
> log? Does this linux box have to be the master browser to hold the wins
> database?
I think that the concept of master browser is irrelevant when you are
using WINS...

stop the server
clear out the nmbd log
start the server
boot a client machine

copy that log and post it here -maybe that'll make some sense to me

brad




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