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Re: [Samba] Multinetwork environment without WINS server

December 22nd, 2010 - 06:10 pm ET by tms3 | Report spam
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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?





Sure...LMHosts files on all the workstations. Kinda messy. You could
allow the NETBios traffic to run wild on your network...with local
workstations becoming local browse masters. All kinda messy. WINS was
the first attempt to really deal with this problem. It works well
enough with samba as a WINS server. If you have any old Windows
server around, it might be easier to do, especially if you have 2 of
them and want to distribute load a bit and have replication.

Guess it really depends on how big your network is.







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#1 TAKAHASHI Motonobu
December 22nd, 2010 - 09:30 pm ET | Report spam
2010/12/23 :
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?





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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