WINS.DAT and multiple registrations of the same name

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Mon Sep 21 16:34:01 GMT 1998


Richard Sharpe wrote:

> The names RJSPC1#xx have multiple addresses against them.  This seems to
> suggest that Samba will allow the same name to be registered more than once!
> 
> What is the go here?

That's perfectly correct - so long as the machine with
the multiple addresses has one IP interface for each
address.

That's how multi-homed machines use NetBIOS.

Cheers,

Jeremy.

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