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Eugene Smiley wrote:
Paul wrote:
>Eugene Smiley wrote:
>>Agreed. DNS is not neccessary. WINS is. Unfornunately, I have my >>Samba server offline at the moment or I'd be able to post the >>particulars from my conf file, but you must set up WINS and also >>set the "lottery" (I wish I could remember it's name) conf entry >>to 64 so that the linux machine beats out all others to become >>the primary WINS server.
>The Window$ computers should be config'ed with the IP address of >theWINS server, so they will always look to the Samba server first >for NetBIOS name resolution. (It will not have any effect on DNS >lookups.) The election process that you're eluding to will be >bypassed as all clients will defer to WINS.
Why set it up in 3-4 places when you can have it handled in one? "Oops I'm changing the IP address of the fileserver. Darn I have to change it on all these other machines..." Keep it simple.
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