DHCP discovery of WINS servers

[Christopher R. Hertel]

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> >If so, then how does smbclient discover its WINS server?  Same for 
> >nmblookup?  These tools need to have a WINS server and (I think) they 
> >currently get their WINS server by reading smb.conf.
> >
> Yep, you're right. I guess we'll need to save the list discovered in a
> file, along with any lease time. If the wins server entry has dhcp in it,
> we look for the file. If it doesn't exist or if it is too old (based on
> the lease time or our own arbitrary limit), we rediscover the wins
> servers. This could go for the client tools as well as nmbd.

Note that clients may not have authority to write to such a file.  This 
only means that systems which are not running the Samba daemons will have 
to perform DHCP queries for every client instance.

Another interesting note is that a client with a hard-coded IP address 
could still use DHCP to grab a WINS list.

Chris -)-----


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