WINS on SAMBA

[Matthew Geddes]

Jeremy Jones wrote:

> 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
> --
> Samba NT-Domain howto (in german)
> http://www.sambahq.de

How does Samba WINS work? Does it just grab static mappings from the
/etc/lmhosts file and "cache" all WINS registrations?

Is WINS replication being worked on currently? (if not I might attempt to watch
a bunch of packets and see what I can see).

Matt