[Samba] static only wins server
Chris Smith
smb_77 at chrissmith.org
Tue Dec 18 13:14:14 MST 2012
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
<gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com> wrote:
> If your windows clients use login scripts to map drives, then they don't
> need WINS at all, since they resolve hosts via DNS.
I think that WINS is necessary for the clients to find the Domain Controller.
> 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.
I want the WINS server to be active - just read only. Clients will
receive P-Node instructions (WINS only) from the DHCP 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.
Many of the client systems will not be under management control.
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