[Samba] The "single WINS" problem

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Andreas Hasenack wrote:

|> so what really happens when WINS server dies (or the PDC at all)?
|> we have a PDC/BDC samba setup.
|
| Name resolution for servers outside the
| local subnet fails.
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|> it would be a mess if the BDC could not be asked
|> for logons because WINS of PDC fails, when PDC is down!!!
|
| That's what happens in my case, the BDC is useless
| because the machine hosting the WINS service crashed.

Right.  We dont't do wins replication right now.

But if people really want WINS replication, we can do
it.  There's been a few patches and metze has made
amazing progress with it in the Samba 4 tree.  It's
more an issue of developer resources.

Nothing is impossible in software :-)








cheers, jerry
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