I'm not referring to Active Directory, the Domain Controller is a Samba 3 box.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
wrote:
> ??? With Active Directory I'm pretty sure that happens via a DNS query
> (or series of them).
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On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 15:14 -0500, Chris Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
> 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
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Gaiseric Vandal
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.
> However, if a client isn't usin
If your windows clients use login scripts to map drives, then they don't
need WINS at all, since they resolve hosts via DNS.
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
Since there's only a couple of server systems on the network that
actually need name resolution or to be seen via NetBIOS browsing. Is
there any reason not to run a static only WINS server with just the
information for those systems listed? If not, then how can one stop
the other systems from regis