[Samba] Browing in Samba4 AD domain

[Rowland penny]

On 01/04/16 19:05, Jason Voorhees wrote:
> I've found an old thread in which you were participating:
>
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-February/189471.html
>
> It's more clear to me now but not at all. Since there seems to be 
> different code for nbt and nmbd which handle WINS replication and 
> browsing, which feature is what I need to setup in my MS network for 
> properly browse all the machines in the domain?
>
> I would ask again, should I setup a Samba host (member of the domain) 
> as a WINS server which is used by all the windows computers to achieve 
> what I need?

Well, yes and no, just set up a domain member and if you want set it up 
as a WINS server, you can, but it probably won't be required. This is 
because your DC should be used via DNS to find your domain machines.

Rowland

>
> Thanks again :)
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Jason Voorhees <jvoorhees1 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jvoorhees1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for replying. I wasn't sure about what the link tried to
>     tell me but you just have confirmed it :)
>
>     So, if I understood correctly, do I have to setup a WINS server in
>     another member machine (let's say another Samba host) and point
>     all my windows computers to such Samba as WINS server?
>