Button to enable WINS

[kasak]

It would be great to have ability to enable wins server in CIFS settings

 

[cyberjock]

I thought WINS died in a fire more than a decade ago. Am I wrong?

 

[kasak]

I thought WINS died in a fire more than a decade ago. Am I wrong?

You are right, but sometimes it can be usefull

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah, I wouldn't expect to see that ever officially supported if its that "dead". As it is, newer features aren't fully implemented. So guess which one the developers(who are very short handed) will work on?

I'd put a ticket in at bugs.freenas.org. You never know when/if it will get implemented.

 

[kasak]

Yeah, I wouldn't expect to see that ever officially supported if its that "dead". As it is, newer features aren't fully implemented. So guess which one the developers(who are very short handed) will work on?

I'd put a ticket in at bugs.freenas.org. You never know when/if it will get implemented.

Thank you!

 

[korna]

Hate to dig up an old topic ... but out of curiosity.. what replaced WINS?

 

[kasak]

Hate to dig up an old topic ... but out of curiosity.. what replaced WINS?

Maybe AD DC, but, i hope, in few years that archaic os named "windows" and all their ugly technologies will be finally deprecated and unclaimed.

 

[anodos]

It would be great to have ability to enable wins server in CIFS settings

Can't you do this through "auxiliary parameters" in the CIFS config?
If this feature does it implemented it should come in the form of a "FreeNAS Retro Mode" where documentation is only accessible by BBS and the server recreates all sorts of networking peculiarities / annoyances from when people used wins. :)