WINS on SAMBA

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Eirik Thorsnes wrote:

> At least somewhat related:
> What is the simplest / best solution to make all the clients switch
> WINS to the Samba server (which they now log into - but samba isn't
> configured to be WINS - so they use one on another subnet)
> The clients is a mixture of W95, W98, NT WS.
> 
> I guess the problem lies in that you can't switch the Samba server
> to be WINS server before every client has switched to use it.
> Or am I wrong?

you are correct.  it's the same with dns.

simplest way to switch a large network over is to use dhcp.