On Saturday 26 November 2005 01:29, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > John H Terpstra schrieb: > > On Friday 25 November 2005 17:41, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > >>Em Sexta 25 Novembro 2005 21:45, John H Terpstra escreveu: > >>>With all due respect, I belive that your alarm and concern is a little > >>>excessive. > >>> > >>>What sort of response are you looking for? What are you hoping to > >>> achieve from > >>>your request? > >> > >>The point is not how often the wins service (or its machine) fails, but > >>what happens to the rest of the network when it does. Considering netbios > >>name resolution is not just about mapping name->IP, but also about > >> locating services (who is the logon server? who is the domain master > >> browser?), a single wins makes the windows network, which is already > >> fragile, even more so. > >>I've seen a wins server fail (kernel panic), and it wasn't pretty to the > >>rest of the network. > > > > That failure was not the fault of the WINS server. > > Certainly the kernel panic wasn't the fault of Samba running WINS, but > the consequences point us to the limitations of Samba.
Ah, but we all have limitations. Remember, to err is human but to really stuff things up requires a computer. > Even a single network disruption between WINS/PDC and the rest of your > network can cause trouble similar to WINS/PDC kernel panicking. A wedged kernel is bad news! Mucho bad news! :-) > To prevent such cases, where networks are separate (i.e. in different > cities) but use a single user database (in LDAP), I just set up PDCs > instead of BDCs (they don't see each other via netbios anyway), and each > of them is acting as a WINS server. > I find it much more resistent to such failures. Ah, so you followed my example in chapter 6 of "Samba-3 by Example". It was added to the documentation because it works so well for the one company I know of that used it. Just make absolutely certain that the all PDCs run the same version of Samba. - John T. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
