Syncing WINS

[Robert Dege]

Keith,

1st, Thanks for the reply.

2nd.  Are you implying that WINS can span multiple subnets?  I thought
that NetBIOS in general was incapable of spanning subnets, based on the
broadcasting restrictions.

That's why I thought I needed 2 WINS servers.

-Rob


> |From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
> |[mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> |Behalf Of Robert Dege
> |Sent: 25 January 2002, Friday 14:56
> |To: samba at lists.samba.org
> |Subject: Syncing WINS
> 
> [snip]
> 
> |
> |I have 2 subnets: 172.28.x.x & 192.168.100.X  The 2 subnets are
> |connected via a VPN, so there are no blocked ports that I'm aware of.
> |
> |I have a Samba WINS Server on each subnet, and want to sync them
> |together so that everybody can see everybody else.  Is this
> |possible via
> |remote browse sync?
> 
> If you use samba as a WINS server, you should have one and only one.
> Otherwise you will create havoc everywhere on your net.
> 
> remote browse sync deals with syncing browse lists and nothing more.
> The correct way to do this, I believe (as it's worked for me), is to
> point ALL smb clients (windows & samba alike) to your singular samba
> WINS server.  Then everyone should be happy.
> 
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-Rob