WINS

[High Mobley]

Simo Sorce wrote:

> John Doe wrote:
> >
> > If i had a machine with ... lets say 5 network cards on it.  If i were to
> > set up a WINS server on the Samba machine... would it handle all Netbios
> > lookups and act as a WINS server on all of the interfaces?
>
> If you bind all the interface it should!
> Remember every client must be setup to contact the WINS server
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Actually, if the Samba box is the master browser for all 5 of the networks
that it's connected to, I believe you won't even have to specify it as the
primary WINS server on your Windows clients!
-High Mobley