[Samba] Likelihood of WINS Replication?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 06:39, Paul Creager wrote:
> My main interest in Samba is its use as a replacement for Microsoft WINS
> servers.  From what I've read, it looks to me like WINS replication is a low
> priority for the Samba team - is this observation correct?  What are the
> chances that Samba will be able to:
> 
> A)  Replicate the WINS database from/to a Microsoft WINS server?
> or
> B)  Replicate the WINS database from/to another Samba server?
> 
> Ideally, we would like to replace aging Microsoft WINS servers with new
> servers running RHEL 3 and Samba, provided there is some form of
> replication.  Thanks in advance for any input.

It's a matter of development time, and you are correct it is a low
priority.  We had a start on it in Samba 3.0, but it was never fully
decoded.  

Beside patches from some outside interested party, I have seen no
indications this is likely to change in the near future. 

Sorry,

Andrew Bartlett

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