If you use DHCP on your network the following directive (on a Linux
server running dhcpd) will automatically distribute the WINS information:
option netbios-name-servers XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
This is the easiest way I've found to handle the Netbios situation with
Samba in a multi-site environment. We have 6 sites total and it has
worked flawlessly since the time I installed it.
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On 12/22/2010 09:24 PM, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:
2010/12/23<[email protected]>:
Is there any way to use samba as pdc in multinetwork environment without
WINS server? In this case (without wins), how will computers find pdc?
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Sure...LMHosts files on all the workstations. Kinda messy.
Refer to the KB150800: Domain Browsing with TCP/IP and LMHOSTS Files
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150800/en-us where you will find how to
setup your LMHOSTS files.
You will use shared LMHOSTS file using #INCLUDE method: KB102725
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102725/en-us
You could allow
the NETBios traffic to run wild on your network...with local workstations
becoming local browse masters. All kinda messy.
WINS can not reduce the traffic about NetBIOS browsing, which always use
broadcasts regardless of WINS.
But WINS can reduce the traffic about NetBIOS name resolution, using unicast
to WINS servers instead of broadcasts.
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TAKAHASHI Motonobu<[email protected]>
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