On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:52:47AM -0700, Jay Ts wrote about 'Re: How Samba let us down': > Mathew McKernan wrote: > > > > My suggestion: > > > > Install a WINS Server (simple 400MHz box even) > > > > running Linux, and if you > > > > like run an internal DNS too which is syncronised to > > > > the WINS database using > > > > the "wins hook" option in smb.conf. Point all your > > > > devices' WINS addresses > > > > to this new WINS server. You will notice a dramatic > > > > improvement in > > > > performance. > > > > > > I did try WINS in testing; I made one of the Samba > > > servers a WINS server and pointed my workstation to > > > it. I didn't see other addresses caching in the Samba > > > WINS database and often I would see "WINS server > > > appears to be down" when using smbclient. However, no > > > other machines were using the WINS server, and the > > > WINS server was not local subnet browse master, so > > > that might have stopped me. > > WINS will only work if every "device" on the LAN registers with the WINS > > server. Device meaning Server, Workstation, PLCs etc. > It may be a pain to configure all those clients, but it's certainly > worth it. Take a look at Microsoft's documentation (in their resource > kits) on how various Windows versions do name resolution, and you'll > see what I mean. One can use DHCP to set the WINS server address for each client - see the docs for details.
Jelmer