What about having two samba boxes, one running as a wins proxy and the other as wins server?
You could use a tool to check the link avaliability (there are some of them already) with a tool, and when the link is download, you can stop samba and restart it with a different configuration file (and with this file the server would be a wins server). Hey, I never tried this. Is just an idea, and I don´t know if it will work. --- Michael Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > We have 2 segments of the corporate network, > which are connected by a unstable(~90% uptime) 2Mbps > link. > This link cannot be made better. > So, we are to use 2 WINS servers(both Samba 2.2.8a) > - one server in one segment. > However, if 2 clients register on 2 different WINS > servers, > they can't mount network drives of each other. > I've tried to use the WINS servers as primary and > secondary > for all clients, so most of the time all clients > register > on the same server (primary). > > However, if a Windows2000-based computer boots when > the link is down > it registers on the WINS server, which can be > connected to; > but doesn't return to the primary server when the > link is up. > > I know only one solution of it - use WINS > replication, > but Samba 2.2.8a still doesn't support it. > Why - are any other solutions? > > Probably the MS WINS replication protocol is hard to > be reverse-engeneered, > but I'd like to use replication at least between 2 > Samba's, no MS Windows! > I'm always ready to test such a thing! > > Here are some "bad" solutions I found on the list > archives: > 1. Use Windows WINS servers in both segments. > (Pff, I hate to use Windows as a server!) > 2. Use only one WINS server in both segments > (What will happen when the link is down?!) > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following > URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba _______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mais espaço, mais segurança e gratuito: caixa postal de 6MB, antivírus, proteção contra spam. http://br.mail.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba