Is there a NBNS setting (NetBIOS Name Server)?

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:22 AM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: Wireless device with Netbios
> 
> 
> I have a situation that I can not seem to find a solution for.
> 
> I have a wireless device from 3com. It is setup to give out 
> DHCP IP and DNS
> settings for tablet PC's. However there is no configuration 
> for it to give
> out a WINS Server IP address. This is where the problem comes in.
> 
> The network the tablets are trying to logon to is NT domain. 
> Without a WINS
> server IP it will not recognize the domain obviously. The 
> work around is to
> connect it to the LAN, which gets DHCP from 2K DHCP server and all
> applicable WINS and DNS settings, logon to the network and 
> build a profile
> on the tablet pc. After this I can logon to the tablet pc 
> from the wireless
> device via cached account.
> So I guess what I was wondering is if there is a way to setup 
> a DNS record
> that points to the NT domain name.
> 
> 
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