WINS on HP-UX

[Olaf Stransky]

Hi there!

Our IT-Management decided to use DHCP for all the Windows NT Boxes (>1500). Because they don't want to use dynamic DNS (the DNS Master is on an IBM S390!), all the PC woudn?t be listed in DNS anymore. They also don't want static adresses in DHCP!
I'm doing backups with OmniBack for aprox. 100 PC's (Cell Server and MediaAgent are on HP-UX). I don't like to put the IP-Adresses manually in NIS because they are not static.

I set up a WINS Server (SAMBA) so the Clients (in our NT Workgroup) can register themself to the WINS Server.
The idea was to frequently query the WINS Server to get all the IP Adresses in the workgroup and copy them to NIS.
But i can't get a listing for a workgroup from the WINS Server (nmblookup -U -R ) like a domain listing in DNS (nslookup, ls -d ).
What else can I do? Are there other ways to let HP-UX talk to WINS?