On 12/02/2011 08:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: >> [netbios naming is] like a roomfull of people yelling out their own >> name all the time as a means of identification with no way to handle >> those out of hearing distance or to arbitrate duplicates. > ... >> But that's a matter of luck, demanding that no one uses duplicates, >> and that all machines can broadcast to each other (i.e., no routers >> between them...). > > WINS does not work this way. WINS works fine even when nodes are separated by routers and is the recommended way (at least by MS) to do SMB/CIFS name resolution in a routed network. I agree with Lamar ... I use WINS on a routed VPN network that has a dozen offices that uses Samba on Linux (and OpenLDAP) as the Domain Controller. Samba has an option called: remote announce http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2583364 and another called: remote broswer sync http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2583504 These two options keep all my WINS/SMB networks synced all across the US.
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