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| author | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 1996-07-22 14:30:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 1996-07-22 14:30:58 +0000 |
| commit | 1c2ab212d96bbd642fd230b117c9940dae5e3767 (patch) | |
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added lots of comments to the docs that Luke wrote on the internals of
nmbd. I haven't been through all of them yet, but I'm getting there
:-)
(This used to be commit 9e411f2c9044104df60022da316379bd27e98b56)
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diff --git a/source3/nameelect.doc b/source3/nameelect.doc index c03f044541..4b50c4a184 100644 --- a/source3/nameelect.doc +++ b/source3/nameelect.doc @@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ wide area network). (a wide area network is created when one or more servers on a broadcast-isolated subnet point to the same WINS server). +-------- +NOTE FROM TRIDGE: + +I'd say "domain master browser" not "WINS server" here. WINS doesn't +have much to do with browsing, it is the WAN varient of name +resolution. The name resolution and browsing functions of a netbios +network are almost entirely separate. Both grew out of systems that +could only be used on local networks. + +To adapt them to WANs, WINS was added for name resolution, and "domain +master browsers" were added for browse lists. It would be perfectly +possible to have a WINS server that doesn't even listen to UDP port +138. +-------- /************************************************************************* check_elections() |