Why only one WINS server?

[Jean-Francois Micouleau]

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Robert Dahlem wrote:

> Documentation states that one should set up only one Samba server as
> WINS server. 
> While NT's TCP/IP setup has two entrys, one for a primary and one for a
> secondary WINS server I wonder why there should be only one Samba WINS
> server. 
> Has anyone tried this with two Samba WINS servers? Did you suffer from
> any interferences. 
> I did and the machines are running perfectly smooth. Did I miss
> something?
> What is the background behind the restriction in the docs?

A samba wins server can't replicate its base with another wins server.
The microsoft WINS replication protocol is undocumented

	Jean Francois

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