WINS on SAMBA

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

manually edit wins.dat.  you really need to take nmbd down temporarily to
get it not to overwrite this file with its internal cache.

we're looking to replace the wins.dat file with tdb or gdb.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> I have read the Microsoft KB article on WINS (I also have one on TCP/IP,
> which is OK). What I wanted to know was, how does SAMBA treat WINS and
> static entries. I figured it would follow the RFC, but given there is no
> WINS Manager (I'm not complaining though), I was unsure as to how one
> achieved static WINS entries. Also, if these are stored in a flat file (I
> guess it's hardly going to be in the registry), is it possible to use the
> special NetBIOS chars (stuff like <1B>, <1D> and things like that)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 

<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
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