[Samba] Netbios node type value WITHOUT wins server only WITH DNS server

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Aug 6 07:37:31 UTC 2019


On 06/08/2019 07:44, Hénoch Hervé via samba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a Samba 4 AD and network configuration is given by a dhcp server.
>
> I have several questions :
>
> 1) Can I remove "netbios-name-server" or must I set this parameter to
> the IP of my Samba 4 ?
>
> 2) What is the good value for "netbios-node-type" to work only with dns
> server ?
>
> 3) Are there other parameters to set to well work with samba 4 ?
>
> I've found documentation with samba3.5 but no with the latest version of
> samba and windows 10.
>
> Regard
>
Why would you want to use netbios (which everyone else is trying to get 
rid off) with an AD domain ?

Just in case you missed it, an AD domain uses dns instead of netbios.

Rowland




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