-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: >At 4/10/2002 03:04 AM -0400, you wrote: >>If you have visiting Windows machines that you plan to have access your >>network, then you're probably already running Samba. It's not an additional >>service. All you need to do is uncomment the line in smb.conf that turns on >>WINS. After that, there aren't any name resolution issues for Winboxes. No >>management required. > >Oh... didn't know that. Don't know much about Samba yet. Thank you for that >note. What does WINS use as its name information source?
Broadcast. Each box broadcasts on the subnet broadcast address and one of the boxes is elected to become the master browser. The master browser keeps track of all the available resources on the network and responds to WINS name resolution requests. The master browser and WINS server are actually a little different, but both operate using SMB protocols. If I reacall correctly, a master browser uses broadcast, but a WINS server can be on a different subnet and use NETBIOS over a routable protocol like TCP/IP. the master browser can be any Winbox on the subnet. It is selected using an election process among the machines on the subnet. A WINS server has to be designated and configured because it needs to be prepared to respond to updates and resolution requests from other subnets. Still, both master browser and WINS server capabilites are one-liners in smb.conf. If you only have one subnet, then tell your Samba box to be a master browser and your Winboxes will be all set. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQE8tHrDpCpg3WyUI50RAoVvAJ45wfNMTf7Q+Y7xi7vXvYqHOzSuCQCg5n0K Koey6nepE5XgkC4mXBAh5ZM= =G4ys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
