[Samba] static only wins server

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Tue Dec 18 14:24:55 MST 2012


On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 15:14 -0500, Chris Smith wrote:
> 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.

??? With Active Directory I'm pretty sure that happens via a DNS query
(or series of them).

> > 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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