Samba will provide WINS name service to all machines in the network if you set the following in the
[global] section of the
smb.conf file:
[global]
wins support = yes
The default value is
no, which is typically used to allow another Windows NT server to become a WINS server. If you do enable this option, remember that a Samba WINS server currently cannot exchange data with any backup WINS servers. If activated, this option is mutually exclusive with the
wins
server parameter; you cannot set both to
yes at the same time or Samba will flag an error.
