[Samba] confusing windows terms?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, akshaysalkar wrote:

> Netbios Name Servers - NBNS
> Primary Domain Controler - PDC
> Domain Master Browser - DMB
> 
> well what i wanted is to know if 
> 
> NBNS is the same as PDC

No.  

> 
> what bout DMB 
> is DMB the same as PDC or DNS?

Windows client assume that the DMB is the same host as the PDC but 
the 2 functions are technically not related.  Neither the DMB nor the PDC 
are like DNS.




cheers, jerry
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