take on future events

[Dan Kaminsky]

----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Carter <cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical at samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 1999 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: take on future events


>Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
>>
>> >    * what about WINS replication (anyone interested
>> >      on working on this?)
>>
>> is it really required ?
>
>Not required, but would be nice for sites like mine.
>The single WINS server become a point of failure.  For
>fail over and load balanceing purposes, it becomes necessary
>to have some sort of secondary server (an I really an
>set against using NT for this one thing).

What about simply copying the WINS database to a second server?  It's a flat
file, as far as I could see.
Sure, it would only work Samba <-> Samba, but like you said, why would you
ever use NT for something like this?