From 63c87884d494b22b6b7f055ed75dc259c2997e79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jelmer Vernooij Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:48:15 +0000 Subject: - Update documentation of 'wins server' (add info about tags, namespaces) (This used to be commit 1a3f8a5f8ad97b2d431b22fbda74cc3f2400e2f9) --- docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml') diff --git a/docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml b/docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml index 6cdfba11ea..2fbd27b934 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/manpages/smb.conf.5.sgml @@ -8294,14 +8294,28 @@ veto files = /.AppleDouble/.bin/.AppleDesktop/Network Trash Folder/ 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 + seperated 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 documentation file Browsing in the samba howto collection. Default: not enabled - Example: wins server = 192.9.200.1 + Example: wins server = 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. + + + Example: wins server = 192.9.200.1 192.168.2.61 + -- cgit