Confusion over how to configure WINS
Peter Polkinghorne
Peter.Polkinghorne at brunel.ac.uk
Tue Nov 9 14:11:18 GMT 1999
samba at samba.org said:
> Mac wrote: P.S. One possible alternative (I've never tried it, but
> it should work), is to abandon WINS altogther. If you have just
> Win9x/NT and Samba clients they can get by quite happily on DNS
> alone. You'll have to enable 'NetBIOS Resolution uses DNS' on the
> Win9x machines (use 'winipcfg' to check) (and the equivalent on
> WinNT)).
>
> You've piqued my curiosity now. I see it checked, but what options
> within the Network settings *cause* it to be set? I do have dialin
> clients that don't seem to want to use DNS for this, and would like
> to fix them.
I too got excited about this - but alas for Windows NT 4.0 at least,
the DNS resolution is ONLY used after successfully contacting a WINS
server.
However the Samba WINS server can do DNS resolution - so you could have
many of these being local - this is what we do on a per campus basis.
All our servers have a 1:1 correspondance between DNS & Netbios names.
Note this last fact is not necessarily the case.
Finally there is a Microsoft article on this: Browsing and Windows 95
Networking - currently at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/msdn_browse1.htm
(see also part 2 - with good flow diagram on name resolution).
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