WINS & DHCP

Joerg Lenneis lenneis at wu-wien.ac.at
Thu Oct 30 22:31:08 GMT 1997


Maciej Kozinski <Maciej.Kozinski at boa.uni.torun.pl> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> can anyone explain how to give WINS server address to the clients using
> DHCP server? Specially I'm interested in DHCP tags - I couldn't find it
> in available documents. 

It depends on the DHCP server you are using. For the Internet
Consortium one it can be specified directly in the configuration file:

option netbios-name-servers <name-or-ip-of-servers>;

Otherwise, the tag number is 44.

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Joerg Lenneis

email: lenneis at wu-wien.ac.at


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