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Re: [PLUG] Samba/DNS question
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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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