On Dec 2, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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.
----
indeed but to continue Les's fairly adept analogy, this is akin to running wires & a PA system to another office so the yelling happens not just in one room but in several rooms.
WINS itself is not routed but a workstation or a server is more than capable of announcing itself or participating in WINS activity on many subnets.
Craig
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