Paul on 27 Feb 2004 08:18:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Samba/DNS question


kaze wrote:

There should be a way to set two WiNS servers though, I know you can do it
on Windows clients, and for Windows clients via Windows DHCP. So SWAT was
creating a config that was broken?



The thing is that the Samba server is acting as the WINS server, not a client. Think Highlander: There can be only one. You could create two Samba servers running WINS and point the clients to both. In fact, WinXP seems to accept more than two entries for WINS, using them is the given order.
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