Topic: wins type service

[Chris]

I been reading threw all the posts on the board and did a search for anything related and read then, but still a little confused. I'm looking to put SME in a small workgroup environment with some w2k,xp pro, and 98 workstations. I want sme to do the job of a wins service. After reading everyones prior posts it appears its possible but not clear on everything. One post I read had a reply that said to see the /etc/smb.conf file. I looked at that file and all I see in that file that might be related is wins support = yes already. Where is the setitng to turn that type of service on.

Also am I correct in looking at the file hosts as the file that will contain the list of workstations that have registered with sme's wins service. Right now it only has the local machine as its 127 address and then its name and its 192 address.

That is my first questions. My 2nd question is unrelated to that one and not as important, but wondering if someone has answer. I'm running an sme on another network that is AD with W2k and on the machines in the domain the sme server is not listed in there network neighborood....but can get to it by name..that sme does have itselfs internal IP listed in the file called host, and it is NOT in the AD's DNS ...so I'm assuming its resolving from SME's wins service, but its wierd, becuaes in this example sounds like sme's wins service is auto on, but no other systems are registered with it. Although I assume that may be becuase its in a AD network. I'm going to try and simulate same scenario at home tonight in a non AD environment.

But dont spin wheels on 2nd questions...first one is more crucial.

Thanks everyone in advance.

Chris

[Bill Talcott]

SME acts as a WINS server by default. I was thinking that the hosts file is the same thing as on any other PC, it's just a list of names to be resolved right there, and has nothing to do with the WINS server stuff.

If you have another server that you want to use for WINS, specify it to the SME.

# /sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop smb WINSServer 192.168.20.1
# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/smb.conf
# service smb restart

[Chris]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the response. So its a wins server by default. Thats good to hear. I'm gonna have to redo my lapt environment becuaes something must not be right if it is one by defualt. I will reinstall sme and see if it dances. Do you happen to know what file holds all the wins registrations? So I can see the workstations registering with it.

And in your second comment your talking about if I want another server (not the sme) to be the wins then use that command to tell sme that? I don't want to use that setting if the sme is going to be the wins itself do I?

[Bill Talcott]

Chris wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Thanks for the response. So its a wins server by default.
> Thats good to hear. I'm gonna have to redo my lapt
> environment becuaes something must not be right if it is one
> by defualt. I will reinstall sme and see if it dances. Do you
> happen to know what file holds all the wins registrations? So
> I can see the workstations registering with it.

I have no idea, as we have an NT4 PDC that we're using for WINS. I don't ever recall hearing about looking up WINS stuff. A Google search for samba and WINS might turn something up...

> And in your second comment your talking about if I want
> another server (not the sme) to be the wins then use that
> command to tell sme that? I don't want to use that setting if
> the sme is going to be the wins itself do I?

Correct. This will turn the SME's WINS off, and have it pass everything to the specified server instead.