CVS update: samba/source/param

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

weell... what the heck.  you just get a bit of a delay while getting no
response from 127.0.0.1 and then you do a broadcast query if that fails,
right?


On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > Make sure that WINS Server = 127.0.0.1 in case we 
> > do not set a value in smb.conf. 
> > 
> > This will be the case if we are a WINS server, or if
> > we don't know what we are doing.
> > 
> > The result is that smbclient can access a WINS server if it
> > is running on the same machine as the WINS server
> 
> Richard, after this change did you test the case where there is no
> WINS server? We don't want smbclient (or smbd and nmbd for that
> matter!) sending queries to 127.0.0.1 if the machine is in a non-WINS
> (ie. bcast only) environment.
> 
> Cheers, Tridge
> 

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