Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:46:19 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Florian Hengstberger <e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: FreeBSD mailinglist <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: samba as wins-server Message-ID: <20050223084619.GB25458@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <icb0os.hi0rvx@webmail.tuwien.ac.at> References: <icb0os.hi0rvx@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:24:28AM +0100, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > Hi! > I'm working in an office with several win hosts of all flavours > (98,2000,eXPerience). Unfortunatly the resolution of computers takes > sometimes up to half an hour (approx.) until they are accessible after > booting up. > In near future I'll have the chance to switch to FreeBSD with > my box (at least, I hope so). I'll install samba for win access to my > machine. Reading some documentation I've found out that samba > can also act as a wins-server. Will this enhance the latency of netbios > resolution or will it corrupt it? Do you mean that the resolution of a name to ip address takes a half an hour or just that machines don't appear on the network for half an hour. There are two parts to it. One machine acts as a browse master and keeps a list of names of all machines in it's workgroup. There is an election process that happens to determine who the master is. When a machine boots up it needs to alert the master that it exists, but that can take a while sometimes with windows. The second part is name to ip resolution, this has nothing to do with the browse master. Two type of name resolution are broadcast and wins. Wins is like a dns server where all boxes register their name and ip address with. Broadcast is more like arp resolution only name to ip instead of ip to hw address. Both both broadcast and wins usually work immediately. The only downfall to broadcast is it only works when every computer is on the same subnet. Most problems with computers showing up is which the browse master/clients registering, not name resolution. And even before the browse master knows about the client, you can still access it by typing in the name by hand, just not by going to network neighbor hood and looking for it. > > Is there a way to speed up this process with samba, > am I writing complete nonsense? > Tell me if this is true. > > Yours, Florian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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