On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:23:44AM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > |> so what really happens when WINS server dies (or the PDC at all)? > |> we have a PDC/BDC samba setup. > | > | Name resolution for servers outside the > | local subnet fails. > | > |> it would be a mess if the BDC could not be asked > |> for logons because WINS of PDC fails, when PDC is down!!! > | > | That's what happens in my case, the BDC is useless > | because the machine hosting the WINS service crashed. > > Right. We dont't do wins replication right now. > > But if people really want WINS replication, we can do > it. There's been a few patches and metze has made > amazing progress with it in the Samba 4 tree. It's > more an issue of developer resources. > > Nothing is impossible in software :-)
I would be very happy with something that did replication among samba servers, I wouldn't even worry about windows server compatibility. After all, samba already does the PDC BDC dance without windows compatibility and it works very well (thanks!). Searching for alternatives I even found an interesting one that I didn't know about: #INCLUDE \\server\share\file in windows' LMHOSTS ;) A poor man's read-only wins ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
