Samba in a WAN Environment

marion.haines at countygovt.brevard.fl.us marion.haines at countygovt.brevard.fl.us
Mon Dec 3 13:35:03 GMT 2001


Brevard County is about 70 miles long and 20 miles wide.  We have many small sites around the County that will eventually have their current servers replaced with Linux/Samba servers.  We've been successfully running a test Samba server since January and I'm convinced of it's stability and usefulness ... good work Samba Team and Linux in general.

Other than for the test Samba server, I've never had to work with a WINS server before and my current questions revolve around the use of the WINS server(s).  The plan is for certain shares on each server to be open to any authorized user on any of the LANs that comprise the WAN and the question came up about what to do if the WINS server is down, or it's segment of the WAN is down.  Quite frankly, I didn't have a clue as to how to answer that one.  Please also note that we want to keep WinNT/Win2K servers to an absolute minimum.  In fact, we hope to have NO WinNT/Win2K servers anywhere on the network, but realize that may not be practical.

As we start to put Samba servers onto the WAN, are we limited to using a single Linux server as the WINS server?

Or do we set up each server to be a local WINS server and then get the WINS servers talking together somehow?

Or is there a way to set up a second, redundant WINS server somewhere on the WAN?

Curious as to how others have handled this issue.

Thanks for the help, 
Marion D. Haines
Network Administrator
Board of County Commissioners
Brevard County, Florida
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