From 8f8a9f01909ba29e2b781310baeeaaddc3f15f0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gerald W. Carter" Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:09:40 -0500 Subject: Moving docs tree to docs-xml to make room for generated docs in the release tarball. (This used to be commit 9f672c26d63955f613088489c6efbdc08b5b2d14) --- docs-xml/smbdotconf/wins/winsserver.xml | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs-xml/smbdotconf/wins/winsserver.xml (limited to 'docs-xml/smbdotconf/wins/winsserver.xml') diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/wins/winsserver.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/wins/winsserver.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..afced35f50 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/wins/winsserver.xml @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ + + + This specifies the IP address (or DNS name: IP + address for preference) of the WINS server that nmbd + 8 should register with. If you have a WINS server on + your network then you should set this to the WINS server's IP. + + You should point this at your WINS server if you have a + multi-subnetted network. + + If you want to work in multiple namespaces, you can + give every wins server a 'tag'. For each tag, only one + (working) server will be queried for a name. The tag should be + separated from the ip address by a colon. + + + You need to set up Samba to point + to a WINS server if you have multiple subnets and wish cross-subnet + browsing to work correctly. + See the chapter in the Samba3-HOWTO on Network Browsing. + + + +mary:192.9.200.1 fred:192.168.3.199 mary:192.168.2.61 + For this example when querying a certain name, 192.19.200.1 will + be asked first and if that doesn't respond 192.168.2.61. If either + of those doesn't know the name 192.168.3.199 will be queried. + +192.9.200.1 192.168.2.61 + -- cgit