Magnus Hedemark on 8 Dec 2003 05:45:03 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Ports needed to use Samba or MS networking functions


Paul wrote:

What ever works. But, I disagree with the above statement. The function of WINS is to NetBIOS as DNS is to the Internet. As longs as all computers are registering with a single WINS server, any computer can resolve names using that WINS server.

NetBIOS doesn't work across subnets because routers by default do not forward broadcasts.

WINS is moot if you're working with a Windows 2000 domain; WINS has been deprecated in the Windows world in favor of DNS.


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