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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Samba, WINS, NTFS, xfSamba
From:       rh <reg.hughson () sympatico ! ca>
Date:       2004-02-20 20:13:39
Message-ID: 20040220151339.53ff0124.reg.hughson () sympatico ! ca
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:28:44 -0800
Mark Knecht <mknecht@controlnet.com> wrote:


> This is just my understanding and is probably wrong. I believe that
> WINS uses netbios calls not any form of DNS. Machines can announce
> themselves as part of a domain and as having a name. If the machines
> ar granted access to the domain by the PDC, then I believe the WINS
> server simply stores a record of the name that was announced with it's
> IP address. If the machine changes IP addresses then the WINS data
> gets updated on the WINS server. If someone needs to talk to a WINS
> device it asks for an IP address from the server.

After doing a little more reading, I believe you are right about WINS
just resolving netbios names.

> 
> If you're trying to use WINS for resolution but don't have a WINS
> server running then it isn't going to work.
> 
> WINS is not very robust. We have it here on our work network and have
> to clean up the WINS database every so often by hand. Fortunately we
> are just a few people in a small office so it works OK for us, but
> when we were in the same office with a large part of our company it
> was a mess.


So can you tell me how you cleaned up your WINS database. That may be
my problem. It appears to me that something is holding to an old IP
address but I can't figure out which component is doing that. 


>

> This may all be wrong. It's just coming from my limited experience.
> 
> - Mark
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