WINS proxy

[Simo Sorce]

There is an easy way:
if they ask for that you may simply answer that they only need to set
your server as wins server.
if they are asking something, they may also be willing to do something
to have their requests satisfied.

Simo.

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 21:26, Alex Torkhov wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Simo Sorce <simo.sorce at xsec.it>
> To: Alex Torkhov <torkhov at newmail.ru>
> Cc: Bradley W. Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>;
> <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: WINS proxy
> 
> Even clients are unmaintained, they always want something.
> Now they wants cross-subnet windows networking.
> 
> I see 2 ways to resolv my problem:
> 1. Add new feature to Samba (something like WINS registration proxy)
> 2. Use lmhosts in WINS server.
> 
> Docs says that on every computer should have a copy of lmhosts.
> And I don`t found doc about using WINS with lmhosts.
> May be someone other find?
> 
> Third way may be implemented something like this:
> small script (like findsmb) runs every 5 minutes and grabs all local names
> (workstations/workgroups)
> into lmhosts file, and when b-mode clients asks WINS server (proxy) it looks
> into this file.
> 
> Alex.
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