Matthew Soffen wrote:
> At 06:04 PM 9/14/98 -0400, Susan Duncan wrote:
> >Ok, I went to my NT manuals just to make sure and yes, you can run WINS
> >without DNS. You set up WINS on one of your NT servers, and then setup each
> >of the other machines with WINS server's IP address. The WINS server needs a
> >static IP address. According to the manual, WINS is a dynamic database for
> >registering and resolving NetBIOS name-to-IP address mappings in a network.
> >(Microsoft Windows NT Technical Support training guide).
> >
>
> Correct. But it does NOT give you any IP to Internet name
> resolution.
No, but since the problem is wanting to use a "name" instead of an IP address in
an intranet, WINS should handle the problem by using the NetBIOS name.
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