WINS on SAMBA

[Jeremy Jones]

Can a Samba WINS server not replicate with another Samba WINS server?  One
of the reasons to implement distributed WINS servers with NT is so that
clients on remote subnets will not need to send requests over a WAN link to
a remote WINS server.  It gets particularly important when VPNs are used
between remote sites over, say, 256K lines.  I really don't want floods of
WINS requests clogging up the links, but I could handle having WINS
databases moving over the lines every couple of hours.

Could the WINS database from a Samba server be pushed to a remote Samba
server by a non-Samba-specific method?

Thanks
Jeremy Jones, MA, MCSE, CCNA
Systems Analyst
Northwest Network Services
(208) 343-5260 x106 
http://www.nwnets.com
mailto:jjones at nwnets.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Harris [mailto:mike at psand.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 7:56 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
Subject: RE: WINS on SAMBA


Richard,

DON'T DO THIS..... Samba WINS doesn't support WINS replication.  You can't
have BOTH on any network, even Subnets (as it's routeable over TCP/IP).. Go
for one or the other.

(apologies for shouting if you haven't got both!! :-))

Mike.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Richard Ferris 
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM 
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 2:39 PM
Subject: RE: WINS on SAMBA


I'm currently using an NT WINS server that exists in another domain at one
of our other sites.  Problem is this box seems rather unreliable and when my
NT clients logon they regularly complain about the SAMBA domain not being
available.  I thought it would be a good idea to set-up WINS on the SAMBA
server but it did slow browsing right down.
I have another Origin200 for storing video so I may install SAMBA on it and
add it to the existing SAMBA domain as a WINS server to see how it performs.
Richard 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Michael Glauche [mailto:mg at plum.de] 
Sent: 13 January 2000 14:20 
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM 
Subject: Re: WINS on SAMBA 


> Richard Ferris wrote: 
> 
> How reliable is SAMBA running as a WINS server?  I set my SGi 
> Origin200 box up as one but netbios resolution seemed to take ages. 
> Anyone else got WINS running and working OK? 
> 
Our Samba WINS server is quite stable here. You REALLY should 
use an wins server for browsing ! :) 
regards, 
   Michael 
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