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diff --git a/docs/docbook/devdoc/wins.sgml b/docs/docbook/devdoc/wins.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 53410316c5..0000000000 --- a/docs/docbook/devdoc/wins.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +0,0 @@ -<chapter id="wins"> -<chapterinfo> - <author> - <firstname>Gerald</firstname><surname>Carter</surname> - </author> - <pubdate>October 2002</pubdate> -</chapterinfo> - - -<title>Samba WINS Internals</title> - - -<sect1> -<title>WINS Failover</title> - - -<para> -The current Samba codebase possesses the capability to use groups of WINS -servers that share a common namespace for NetBIOS name registration and -resolution. The formal parameter syntax is -</para> - -<para><programlisting> - WINS_SERVER_PARAM = SERVER [ SEPARATOR SERVER_LIST ] - WINS_SERVER_PARAM = "wins server" - SERVER = ADDR[:TAG] - ADDR = ip_addr | fqdn - TAG = string - SEPARATOR = comma | \s+ - SERVER_LIST = SERVER [ SEPARATOR SERVER_LIST ] -</programlisting></para> - -<para> -A simple example of a valid wins server setting is -</para> - -<para><programlisting> -[global] - wins server = 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3 -</programlisting></para> - -<para> -In the event that no TAG is defined in for a SERVER in the list, smbd assigns a default -TAG of "*". A TAG is used to group servers of a shared NetBIOS namespace together. Upon -startup, nmbd will attempt to register the netbios name value with one server in each -tagged group. -</para> - -<para> -An example using tags to group WINS servers together is show here. Note that the use of -interface names in the tags is only by convention and is not a technical requirement. -</para> - - -<para><programlisting> -[global] - wins server = 192.168.1.2:eth0 192.168.1.3:eth0 192.168.2.2:eth1 -</programlisting></para> - -<para> -Using this configuration, nmbd would attempt to register the server's NetBIOS name -with one WINS server in each group. Because the "eth0" group has two servers, the -second server would only be used when a registration (or resolution) request to -the first server in that group timed out. -</para> - -<para> -NetBIOS name resolution follows a similar pattern as name registration. When resolving -a NetBIOS name via WINS, smbd and other Samba programs will attempt to query a single WINS -server in a tagged group until either a positive response is obtained at least once or -until a server from every tagged group has responded negatively to the name query request. -If a timeout occurs when querying a specific WINS server, that server is marked as down to -prevent further timeouts and the next server in the WINS group is contacted. Once marked as -dead, Samba will not attempt to contact that server for name registration/resolution queries -for a period of 10 minutes. -</para> - -</sect1> -</chapter> |