Hi Jan. Thanks for your quick response. :-)
Well, in case our company requires high availability (don't know yet) I will set up two samba servers syncing the second one with rsync. bye, Martin -- Jan van Rensburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 09.04.02: > Martin, > > The remote browse sync option is not WINS, but "browse lists". You can > not replicate WINS with SAMBA, even if both your servers are SAMBA > servers. In 95% of the cases you don't really need to sync WINS (apart > from high availability / load balancing). So you can rather configure > your win98 machine to use the NT server for WINS. > > There is a good document in the SAMBA source tree called "browsing", > iirc, that will explain the name resolution process in detail. > > Regards, > Jan van Rensburg > > On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 08:54 , Martin Rasp wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I've been searching the Internet but didn't find a working answer for > > my problem. So I'm asking here. > > > > I've got a working WINS server which runs under WinNT 4 (hostname > > n63110, workgroup fs-fbq4). Now I'd like to set up a second one with > > Samba 2.2.3a (hostname u84151, workgroup fs-fbq4) under Debian > > GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) and let them synchronize with each other. > > > > I've configured my Win98 workstation computer to ask my Samba WINS > > Server for NETBIOS Names which works fine (/var/run/samba/wins.dat > > contains hostname, username and workgroup name). > > > > When adding Samba WINS server in WINS-Manager (NT4) and double-clicking > > on the new entry I'm getting an error message that either the WINS > > server wasn't started or couldn't be accessed. > > > > Here are the related parts of the [global] section of my smb.conf: > > > > workgroup = fs-fbq4 > > local master = yes > > os level = 65 > > domain master = no > > preferred master = yes > > wins support = yes > > wins proxy = no > > remote browse sync = n63110/fs-fbq4 > > dns proxy = no > > name resolv order = lmhosts host wins bcast > > > > What's wrong with my configuration? > > Thanks for any help in advance. -- http://www.linux-fuer-alle.de http://www.itse-pruefung.de http://www.malteser-braunschweig.de ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
