[Samba] Samba as WINS

Sadique Puthen sputhenp at redhat.com
Tue Feb 5 06:28:23 GMT 2008


Kevin R. Gutch wrote:
> Can Samba act as the WINS server in a Win2003 Domain?

Yes. Just specify "wins support = yes" in smb.conf and configure your 
windows systems to use this samba wins server.

> If so is it a good idea?

I don't know really, but I don't know why you think it could be bad.

--Sadique

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> Kevin



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