On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 22:31 -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > I don't know why a Windoze network might need wins support. Knowing > Microsoft products, its probably some legacy support option that > typically doesn't matter for relatively current products. From what I've read, WINS is *needed* for resolving machine names across different subnets (that's SMB machine name business, not resolving machine names for any other purpose), without having to do broadcasts (asking everyone if they're machine X, and hoping machine X hears and responds). It's to do with being able to locate the browse master, so you can contact the right browse master for the answer. On the other hand, if you're using DNS to find the IP for machines, it shouldn't be necessary. NB: Machine name being the single host nane without any dots. Like having fred.localdomain with "fred" being the name. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
