[Samba] The single WINS problem: question

[Andreas]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 04:17:04PM -0700, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 02:02, werner maes wrote:
> > 	hello
> >
> > I've been reading the thread
> > (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113286376900001&r=1&w=2) and I have
> > the same limitation with WINS in a PDC/BDC.
> >
> > That's why I have the following (experimental) setup:
> >
> > PDC ==> wins support = yes, passdb backend: master ldap
> > BDC ==> wins support = yes, passdb backend: slave ldap
> >
> > I configured some of my XP clients to use both WINS servers and it
> > seems to work.
> 
> Well, you CAN do this, but then it is necessary to use the "remote browse 
> sync" and "remote announce" parameters on both systems to gain cross-subnet 

Do these parameters have something to do with name resolution? If they
are only for network browsing, the minute an user clicks on a machine
that appeared in his/her network neighbourhood the name resolution will
come into place and possibly fail.