WINS problems - 1.9.17p1 and p2 (fwd)

[Jim Watt]

|>On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Ivan Auger wrote:
|>
|>> I get the following message (and the PC's cannot browse the network - and
|>> samba is compiled with DES support).
|>> 
|>> WINS server did not respond to name registration!

To which Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton replied...

|>you shouldn't get this unless you have "wins server = x.x.x.x".

The only line in our smb.conf relating to wins is:

    wins support = yes

And still we're getting that message!

Jim
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