> > We have 2 segments of the corporate network, > > which are connected by a unstable(~90% uptime) 2Mbps link. > > This link cannot be made better. > > Just a silly idea don't know even if it works: If you are in control of the > link how about messing with the wins.dat file? When the link gets up you > exchange/merge wins.dat files from both servers and restart nmbds... For > example all machines in one net are called with a distinctive a_ in name so > you grep in b network in the wins.dat file and replace all a_ entries with > the new ones. Same for the other wins.dat for hosts named b_whatever. > wins.dat has simple format, so it's possible to detect fi any machines are registered on a secondary WINS server, replace/add this data to the primary WINS server's wins.dat, and kill&start nmbd (because I don't know how to make it reread wins.dat).
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