[jcifs] Problem connecting to WINS after update from jcifs 1.0.1 to 1.1.8

Wed Apr 13 05:11:16 GMT 2005

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 05:49:23PM +0200, Ingo Rockel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have problem connecting to a wins after updating from jcifs 1.0.1 to 
> 1.1.8.

This is entirely tangential, but...

You're not having trouble connecting to a WINS server.  A WINS server is a 
simple name server.  You don't have to authenticate to it and, since it's 
all done over UDP, you never really "connect".

Minor terminology glitch...

Chris -)-----

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