On 12/02/2011 09:46 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Yes, but to make it work, the wins server has to have a static IP, > which is what the discussion was about avoiding.... And it still > doesn't handle duplicate names or provide a way to delegate naming > rights to avoid them. So it can work, but only under some limited > circumstances, and only for things using the matching protocols. But, > if you have a registered DNS domain or a private one and constrain > your lookups to start there, you could use a DNS server that accepts > dynamic updates. > There is also certainly nothing wrong with doing dynamic dns if you have a linux box giving out dhcp addresses. You can run ddns and wins on the same box. I have both.
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