nmbd & netbios name -> many addreses

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Fri Mar 12 01:10:16 GMT 1999


On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> Jeremy,
> 
> > Peter Polkinghorne wrote:
> > 
> > > The other thing I have not been ale to test is what a multihomed NT box does -
> > > we do not have any.
> > > 
> > 
> > I have. That's why Samba nmbd does what it does - it performes
> > *exactly* the same way as a multi-homed NT box does.
> 
> Huh?  Why would the nmbd perform the same way that the multi-homed NT box 
> does?  It's not the nmbd platform that's multi-homed.

make a clear distinction between nmbd-as-wins-server and
nmbd-as-wins-client.



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