[Samba] Multiple wins server entries

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Nejc Skoberne wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I have 2 questions:
> 
> 1. Is it possible to specify mutiple "wins servers" in smb.conf file?
> man smb.conf doesn't say that, so I don't know. If it is possible how
> do I do it? "wins server = IP_1, IP_2"?

Not in 2.2

> 2. man smb.conf says "password server" must be a NetBIOS name. I have
> IP addresses specified and it works OK anyway. How come?

We do a node status request to get the name for the NBSS request.

Both of these are fixed and documented in the 3.0 beta releases.




cheers, jerry
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