AW: Using remote announce w/ security=domain
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Fri Apr 16 14:09:51 GMT 1999
> > 2. Don't believe what Microsoft is telling on WINS configuration
> > (especially replication). In most situations (especially on networks
> > with small bandwidth WAN connections between), there might be better,
> > more effective solutions using combinations of NetBIOS-Broadcasts,
> > LMHOSTS and WINS if you need to use NetBIOS Name Resolution.
>
> This is not a good idea.
>
> LMHOSTS is evil, because it has to be maintained on all machines on your
> network. In practice, the LMHOSTS update will be done only on machines
> which need immediatly access to a particular ressouce. Then, two days
> later your telephone rings...
worse, when you move the PDC for a network, either ip address or even
name, you run into "i can't find the network" problems. at that point,
admins seriously consider remote access to hosts and blanket-removing all
lmhosts files...
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