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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