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Configuring Advanced Server for UNIX

Configuring NetBIOS

Product Manual

U7613-J-Z815-6-76

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05

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.