[Samba] lazy samba server?

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:08 PM, George He <georgehe2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi John,
>> > when you say wins, do you mean the lmhosts file?
>> No. If you set the PDC to be a wins server then add this ip as the
>> wins server in every windows client the windows machines will find the
>> domain controller.
>>
>> But that should work. Have you added the proper format of a domain
>> controller?
>>
>> Here is a very old example I dug up on how we did this years ago:
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>> 10.116.15.13      RADIMGDC0          #PRE #DOM:RADIMG
>> 10.116.15.13      "RADIMG         \0x1B" #PRE
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>> So RADIMGDC0 was the PDC on the RADIMG DOMAIN. The "" part has to be
>> exactly 20 characters.
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> sorry John I wasn't clear. When I say lmhosts files, I meant the lmhosts
> files on the windows clients.
> The two sample lines you put above do look like what I put in my lmhosts
> file, except that I don't understand the "exactly 20 characters" part.
> Since the sample file lmhosts.sam in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc doesn't
> say this, I just listed the two servers I have in this file like this:
>
> 1.1.1.1 linux1 #PRE #DOM:MYDOM # this is my PDC
> 2.2.2.2 linux2 #PRE #DOM:MYDON # this is my file server
>
> Is it possible the "exactly 20 characters" rule was good only years ago?
>
I am sorry this is 15 before the \0x1B and this is the name of the domain.

See here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150800