On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 06:39, Paul Creager wrote: > My main interest in Samba is its use as a replacement for Microsoft WINS > servers. From what I've read, it looks to me like WINS replication is a low > priority for the Samba team - is this observation correct? What are the > chances that Samba will be able to: > > A) Replicate the WINS database from/to a Microsoft WINS server? > or > B) Replicate the WINS database from/to another Samba server? > > Ideally, we would like to replace aging Microsoft WINS servers with new > servers running RHEL 3 and Samba, provided there is some form of > replication. Thanks in advance for any input.
It's a matter of development time, and you are correct it is a low priority. We had a start on it in Samba 3.0, but it was never fully decoded. Beside patches from some outside interested party, I have seen no indications this is likely to change in the near future. Sorry, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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