[Samba] Likelihood of WINS Replication?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:52:06AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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 for getting to email late, I was in Brussels all
last week.

Andrew is right, we have some code here but it's not yet
finished. Patches to finish this implementation would be
very welcome. Maybe you could fund someone to do this if
it's really important to you ?

Jeremy.