On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:04:18AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Allison wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Will Payne wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Is there any way to 'administer' Samba's WINS database? I'm attempting to > >>get Samba to take over our NT servers' current functionality so that we > >>can ditch them entirely. I've enabled WINS support and told our DHCP > >>server to point at it. Is there any way of viewing it's database to see if > >>it's working? > > > > That database in in plain text in wins.dat so it's easy to view. Currently > > there aren't any good admin tools - I need to work on and fix that (thanks > > for the reminder :-). > > The biggest problem here IMO is that the wins.dat is a temporary > dump of what nmbd has in memory. You can't edit it during run time > and get changes immediately. We also don't really support static > wins entries yet (I know we have that horrible wins.dat hack but > it's not really easy).
Yep - we need a command line WINS editor.... Can you open a bugzilla entry and assign it to me so I don't forget ? Thanks, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba