On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 15:14 -0500, Chris Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Gaiseric Vandal > <gaiseric.van...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If your windows clients use login scripts to map drives, then they don't > > need WINS at all, since they resolve hosts via DNS. > I think that WINS is necessary for the clients to find the Domain Controller.
??? With Active Directory I'm pretty sure that happens via a DNS query (or series of them). > > However, if a client isn't using wins it will still use netbios "browser" to > > locate resource on the network. I am not sure if you can totally defeat > > this by pointing the windows clients to an inactive WINS server. > I want the WINS server to be active - just read only. Clients will > receive P-Node instructions (WINS only) from the DHCP server. > > If you don't have file and print sharing enable on the windows client that > > should prevent them from showing up a netbios resources. > Many of the client systems will not be under management control. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba