On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Gaiseric Vandal <[email protected]> wrote: > If your windows clients use login scripts to map drives, then they don't > need WINS at all, since they resolve hosts via DNS.
I think that WINS is necessary for the clients to find the Domain Controller. > However, if a client isn't using wins it will still use netbios "browser" to > locate resource on the network. I am not sure if you can totally defeat > this by pointing the windows clients to an inactive WINS server. I want the WINS server to be active - just read only. Clients will receive P-Node instructions (WINS only) from the DHCP server. > If you don't have file and print sharing enable on the windows client that > should prevent them from showing up a netbios resources. Many of the client systems will not be under management control. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
