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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter�14.�Samba WINS Internals</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.64.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Developers Guide"><link rel="up" href="pt03.html" title="Part�III.�Samba Subsystems"><link rel="previous" href="parsing.html" title="Chapter�13.�The smb.conf file"><link rel="next" href="pwencrypt.html" title="Chapter�15.�LanMan and NT Password Encryption"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter�14.�Samba WINS Internals</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parsing.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Part�III.�Samba Subsystems</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="pwencrypt.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="wins"></a>Chapter�14.�Samba WINS Internals</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Gerald</span> <span class="surname">Carter</span></h3></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">October 2002</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="wins.html#id2517768">WINS Failover</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2517768"></a>WINS Failover</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter�14.�Samba WINS Internals</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.66.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Developers Guide"><link rel="up" href="pt03.html" title="Part�III.�Samba Subsystems"><link rel="prev" href="parsing.html" title="Chapter�13.�The smb.conf file"><link rel="next" href="pwencrypt.html" title="Chapter�15.�LanMan and NT Password Encryption"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter�14.�Samba WINS Internals</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="parsing.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Part�III.�Samba Subsystems</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="pwencrypt.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="wins"></a>Chapter�14.�Samba WINS Internals</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Gerald</span> <span class="surname">Carter</span></h3></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">October 2002</p></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="wins.html#id2537572">WINS Failover</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2537572"></a>WINS Failover</h2></div></div></div><p>
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The current Samba codebase possesses the capability to use groups of WINS
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servers that share a common namespace for NetBIOS name registration and
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resolution. The formal parameter syntax is