Hi, I looked at sources of nmbd, and did some experiments with it, and see that that local announcement does not change WINS database. I think that it is bug, and need to be patched. I am talking about samba-2.2.5 now. May be someone could patch it. If it will be do for samba-3.0 or if it is already patched, please notify me.
Thanks, Alex. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher R. Hertel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alex Torkhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:21 PM Subject: Re: WINS proxy > I need to check, but my vague memory is that WINS proxy only handles > lookups, not local announcements. I'm not sure, though. I remember > some notes in an old Microsoft document. I'll have to look. > > Chris -)----- > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 09:56:46AM +0400, Alex Torkhov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using samba-2.2.5 > > > > And I see, that when wins server and wins proxy is set, > > broadcast announcements does not do anything with > > WINS database. > > > > Is this behavior is right? > > I think, that host announcement should add this > > host to WINS database. > > Or it is solved in Samba-3.0? > > > > Thanks, > > Alex Torkhov. > >
