[Samba] Re: Clients dynamically allocate WINS server

[Johnny Shih]

Thanks Sander,

I have thought about that as well.  For some season, the client's 
(running Red Hat  9) .leases file dosen't seem to include the netbios 
server information even thought I have specified option 
netbios-name-servers in the dhcpd server, but that's a not relavent 
topic for this board.  I might have a look into it a bit more.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Johnny

Sander van Vliet wrote:
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> On Friday 01 August 2003 19:32, Johnny Shih wrote:
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>>Hello guys,
>>
>>I have been running a server (running RH 7.3) with WINS support for
>>quite some time and it works well.  I am seeing that once Windows
>>clients (Windows XP) are connected to the server, the wins.dat in the
>>server gets updated where the clients IP etc being added.   Even the
>>server's IP has been changed (for example, the machine is moved and
>>connected to a different network with a different WINS server), the
>>clients still automatically find and talk to that WINS server and have
>>themselves registered.
>>
>>However, the linux clients do not seem to be so smart(?), my finding is
>>that "wins server" has to be specified so the client's samba will then
>>talk to the WINS server and therefore get registered.  This becomes very
>>inconvenient if the linux machnes (e.g. laptops) are used/connected to
>>different networks where WINS servers' IPs are different or even
>>unknown.  I am wondering, how does Windows (act as a WINS client) do
>>that?  Can linux running Samba dynamically find WINS server without
>>having to specify it in "wins server"?
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ISC's DHCP server is capable of passing the IP of a WINS server so in theory 
> it is possible to write some script to fetch that IP from the DHCP response 
> and modify it in the client's smb.conf.
> The DHCP server has this configuration for a WINS server:
> 
> option netbios-name-servers [ipaddress], [ipaddress], ... ; 
> 
> Hope this is of some help.
> 
> Greetz,
> 
> Sander van VLiet
> 
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