Advanced Server Overview and Installation

Configuring Advanced Server for UNIX Configuring NetBIOS

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The chapter “Implementing WINS” contains more comprehensive explanations on how

WINS clients communicate with WINS servers.

Name resolution on an Advanced Server for UNIX computer is configured by editing two

textfiles in the /var/opt/nbrfc/conf directory:

● The wins.cfg file is used to configure an Advanced Server for UNIX computer as a WINS

client.

● The names.cfg file is used to specify static mappings of NetBIOS names to IP addresses.

The following sections explain the usage of both files.

5.1.3.1 The wins.cfg file

In file wins.cfg you can enter two WINS server addresses by which means the Advanced

Server for UNIX computer is configured as a WINS client. This file, together with a corre-

sponding template file wins.sam, is automatically created in /var/opt/nbrfc/conf during instal-

lation of the nbrfc package if it does not already exist.

To configure an Advanced Server for UNIX computer as a WINS client:

Ê Edit wins.cfg and fill in the IP addresses of a primary and a secondary WINS server. Any

WINS-Server within reach – NT WINS or Advanced Server for UNIX 4.0 WINS – can

be used.

Ê Run the file wins.cfg as a sh script:

cd /var/opt/nbrfc/conf; sh wins.cfg

The last command is executed automatically whenever NetBIOS starts, e.g. at system

startup.