LMHOSTS as static WINS entry repository?

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Tue Apr 29 16:10:59 GMT 2003


Jerry,

Metze has already started on a tool that will allow WINS entries to be
managed. I do not know what his time-line for this is.

- John T.

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Herb Lewis wrote:
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> > Maybe we could add some of the directive support from the MS lmhosts
> > file to ours. Only load entries flagged #PRE or #DOM into WINS
>
> I would rather see a "wins preload file = <string>" in smb,conf that
> points to an lmhosts formatted file to be used as static entries in
> wins.tdb.  Keeping lmhosts and the static entries is better and less
> confusing I think.
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> cheers, jerry
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John H Terpstra
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