Hi there,
I need advice regarding wins settings. I am running two samba servers on the
same subnet in a multi-subnetted network. They are connected to a LDAP backend.
One of them is supposed to be the PDC and the other one should act as BDC. The
question is how the clients on the other subnets should find the BDC if the PDC
is down if only one of them has wins support = yes set as suggested in the
manpage for smb.conf ("Note that you should NEVER set this to yes on more than
one machine in your network"). The only combination that has been working so
far is to give the clients both servers as wins server via dhcp and enable wins
support on both. If only the PDC has wins support = yes and only the pdc is
being announced to the clients as wins server they refuse domain logons if the
PDC is down saying that there is no logon server available.
What am I missing ? If I understand correctly the clients in the subnets will
elect a local master browser for each subnet which turns to the wins server to
sync the browselist. But what if the wins server (PDC) is down ? How will the
clients find the BDC ?
Regards,
Stephan
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