On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 15:38, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > If I can access another computer on the wired network by name, that > means that the WINS server is working, right? The problem is that I > can't access another computer by name (only by IP address) when it is > on a different subnet.
Not necessarily. I don't have experience with Windows 7, but generally MS clients have been able to resolve netbios hostnames on the same subnet via broadcast name resolution even if the WINS server is sick. It's only when reaching across subnets that WINS is essential in providing the flat namespace. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
