WINS on SAMBA

[Matthew Geddes]

Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:

> 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.
>
> dhcp
>
> > 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?
>
>         J.F.

Or, if DHCP is not an option, try making up a template for System
policies and let Windows change itself (not the most ideal way, i know,
but it works).

Matt