Sidebar re WINS reccomendation (was Re: Unexpected behavior)
David Collier-Brown
davecb at canada.sun.com
Mon Jan 21 20:39:27 GMT 2002
bao wrote:
>
> The smb.conf man page says that "you should not set [wins support] to true
> unless you have a multi-subnetted network and you wish a particular nmbd to be
> your WINS server."
This paragraph should be changed to encourage
use of wins rather than shout-and-hope.
I suggest dropping the doubtfull advice
entirely:
----
nmbd(8)</A> process in Samba will act as a WINS server.
You should set this to true if you wish <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>nmbd</B
> to be your WINS server.
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--dave
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