wins support question.

[Igor Belyi]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 10:30, Igor Belyi wrote:
>  
>
>>After advising number of people to set "wins support = yes" to fix their 
>>"Domain Controler not found" problems I finally looked in man smb.conf 
>>and saw "...that you should NEVER set this to yes...". My bad, I know.
>>
>>Now, can somebody point me to the right direction to find out HOW 
>>Windows machines find PDC and what kind of problems can prevent them to 
>>find it before or after joining its Domain.
>>    
>>
>
>On any NetBIOS network, there should be one, and only one WINS server. 
>This server should be notified to DHCP clients by setting it in DHCP
>(dhcpd.conf for the ISC DHCP server), and manually configured on all
>Samba and fixed-address machines.
>
>A Samba server becomes the one wins server for the network by setting
>'wins support = yes'.  
>
>Andrew Bartlett
>  
>

Ok... And what would happen if there's no WINS server at all? Will this 
result in machines not finding Domain?

Thanks,
Igor