LMHOSTS as static WINS entry repository?

[Simo Sorce]

That way you cannot have entries in lmhosts that you do not want to show
in wins ...

Simo.

On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 15:52, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> During sambaXP we discussed ways to supply the WINS server with static
> entries. Now that wins.dat has been moved to a wins.tdb, vi as the main
> tool is gone. One idea would be to take the WINS server's lmhosts file
> and feed the wins clients from there for all the names that DNS can't
> provide. Only #00 and #20 are handed to DNS currently, so for example #1b
> does not work here. John and Metze were busy writing a wins.tdb editor,
> which would definitely be the way to go. As we have feature freeze
> really soon, the following trivial patch might also provide a solution:
> Feed the wins_server_subnet with all the entries from the lmhosts file.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Index: nmbd/nmbd_lmhosts.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /space/vl/cvstree/samba/source/nmbd/nmbd_lmhosts.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> diff -u -r1.9 nmbd_lmhosts.c
> --- nmbd/nmbd_lmhosts.c	30 Jan 2002 06:08:22 -0000	1.9
> +++ nmbd/nmbd_lmhosts.c	27 Apr 2003 13:42:42 -0000
> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
>        /* Add the given name type to the subnet namelist. */
>        (void)add_name_to_subnet(subrec,name,name_type,(uint16)NB_ACTIVE,PERMANENT_TTL,source,1,&ipaddr);
>      }
> +    (void)add_name_to_subnet(wins_server_subnet,name,name_type,(uint16)NB_ACTIVE,PERMANENT_TTL,source,1,&ipaddr);
>    }
>     
>    endlmhosts(fp);
> 
> Volker
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