Browsing across subnets connected by a linux router w/out using WINS

Michal Jezierski heja at xox.pl
Fri May 28 12:38:46 GMT 1999


> > > What we want to achive is, to have full NetBIOS connectivity between these
> > > two subnets including browsing. The "official" way to do it seems to have a
> > > WINS server in each domain. For several reasons we don't want to use WINS
>
> [snip]
> > You shall also set up name resolution for both subnets (I recommend DNS,
> > it's fast and reliable, and you can run it on your router).
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why do you not want to use WINS?
>
> Seeya,
> Paul
>       If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!

;=)

Michal


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