DHCP and WINS.... wins.dat is out of date

[Andrew Bartlett]

Paul Miller wrote:
> 
> My wins.dat seems to be rather out of date.  I'm running Samba 2.2.2 as a wins server with dhcp.  When the client address changes, Samba doesn't seem to update wins.  The clients are Win2k & WinXP.  In the manual page, it suggests that I shouldn't change the max/min ttl parameters.  Can I hook dhcp to samba somehow?

The way I do this with my networks is as follows:

ISC DHCP 3.0

ISC BIND 8 or 9

Samba (2.2 will do)

Setup the dhcpd.conf to give out the wins server's address:
    option netbios-name-servers 192.168.2.99, 192.168.2.99;
(yes twice, it helps when the server is down, client retries for twice
as long)

Also setup dynamic dns (see dhcpd.conf manpage).

Setup Samba as a wins server, but also set 'dns proxy = yes'.   This
will mean that any host in DNS (now kept sane by dynamic DNS) will also
appear as a WINS host.

I don't attempt to update DNS from wins becouse I find the DHCP way
sufficient, all windows clients supply their machinename as requested
and it 'just works'.

Andrew Bartlett
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