[Samba] static only wins server

[Gaiseric Vandal]

If your windows clients use login scripts to map drives, then they don't 
need WINS at all, since they resolve hosts via DNS.

However, if a client isn't using wins it will still use netbios 
"browser" to locate resource on the network.    I am not sure if you can 
totally defeat this by pointing the windows clients to an inactive WINS 
server.

If you don't have file and print sharing enable on the windows client 
that should prevent them from showing up a netbios resources.




On 12/18/12 13:47, Chris Smith wrote:
> Since there's only a couple of server systems on the network that
> actually need name resolution or to be seen via NetBIOS browsing. Is
> there any reason not to run a static only WINS server with just the
> information for those systems listed? If not, then how can one stop
> the other systems from registering themselves?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris