WINS static entry support (Re: WINS again ;-))

[Rafal Szczesniak]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:

> wins.dat file is read when nmbd starts and write-back when nmbd stops.
> So, if you modify wins.dat manually, first you should stop nmbd.
> And then please add entries like:
>
> "SAMBA#1c" 0 192.168.10.67 192.168.10.43 e4R
>            |                             ~~~ <-- means NetBIOS group name
>            | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <-- multiple IP addresses is
>            |                                 seperated with a space
>            +-- TTL = 0 means forever
>
> "DONAU#20" 0 192.168.10.67 64R
>                            ~~~ <-- means NetBIOS unique name
>        ~~ <-- suffix must be written with lower case.
>
> and restart nmbd.
>
> This probably works well, but not much tested.
> Please examine and I want a report from you :-)

Monyo, wouldn't it expire after a period of time, if wins server did
not receive an announcement from the (recorded-by-hand) host ?


Rafal 'Mimir' Szczesniak <mimir at spin.ict.pwr.wroc.pl>   |
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