[Samba] More then one wins server on a network.

Herb Lewis hlewis at panasas.com
Fri Jan 18 22:20:19 GMT 2008


If all your machines are on the same subnet you don't really need WINS.
The problem becomes one of making sure that all the machines on
different subnets that want to see each other in browse lists use the
same WINS server.

Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
> Can some explain to me why its bad to have more then one wins samba wins
> server on a subnet.  I have two different domains on one subnet and want
> to have each domain control be its own wins server.
> 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
> Dom
> 


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