[Samba] SuperSlow Browsing

[Franz Sirl]

At 00:56 08.12.2002, John H Terpstra wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Dominik Wagenknecht wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've set up a Samba-Server with WINS which should enhance networking
> > around here. The situation is fairly simple:
> >
> > - Around 90 Student-PC's
> > - Everything is in the net 10.1.2.0 / 255.255.255.0
> >
> > Till now everything worked more or less well without WINS (so the
> > DHCP-Server just assigned IP/Gateway/DNS).
> > Now I installed a samba machine and activated WINS-Server. The IP of
> > the WINS Server is assigned through the DHCP:
> >
> > option netbios-name-servers 10.1.2.15;
> > option netbios-node-type 2;
>
>No way! You want netbios-node-type 8
>
>By saying type 2, you are telling your MS Windows clients to ignore WINS!
>You told them to use Broadcast based name resolution.

Well, unless all the docs are wrong, you are wrong here, or? 2==P-Node 
which means WINS only, whereas 8==H-Node meaning WINS first then broadcast. 
And the ISC DHCPD FAQ explicitly recommends using P-Node, which seems 
logical to me as one doesn't want unnecessary broadcasts if there is a WINS 
server around.

Do you have any arguments for using 8==H-Node?

Franz.