WINSEDIT.C

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Thu May 1 07:51:45 GMT 2003


On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:32:08AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:

> When the winsedit tool will be able to edit entries in the wins.tdb
> YOU MUST USE IT WHEN NMBD IS  *NOT* RUNNING!!!!
> otherwise the information will not be used and overwritten!!!
> Because of the current layout of nmbd.
> nmbd read's the wins.tdb on start and then holds the a list in memory.
> then it flushes all entries to a new wins.tdb file periodicly and delete 
> the old file!!!

How about a tdb message that reloads data from the wins.tdb file?
That would be better than placing restrictions on when the tool can be
run.


Tim.


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