Re: WINS server (nmbd) puzzle

[Craig White <craig.white@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 6, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:09 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter 
> <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> That might be an issue. I can't find a wins.tdb in /var/lib/samba.
> 
> Found it in /var/cache/samba. It has the record I want, but nmblookup 
> unicast fails. nmblookup broadcast works, but that gets it from the 
> workstation, not the WINS server, and the point of WINS is to get rid of 
> the broadcast traffic.
----
No - WINS doesn't get rid of broadcast traffic... it's just a set of rules and behaviors for broadcasting and resolving the names of the computers on the local subnet.

Craig
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