On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 13:46 -0400, Tom Rivers wrote: > DNS is completely different than NetBIOS. NetBIOS is a Microsoft- > specific protocol used to identify servers, printers and other resources > on a LAN. DNS is a universally accepted way of translating domain names > into IP addresses. Having one configured doesn't necessarily imply that > the other is configured as well. > > The only reason I made reference to NetBIOS not necessarily being passed > over a VPN tunnel is that most of the appliances I have worked with have > a setting that can be used to propagate NetBIOS over a VPN tunnel. I am > certainly not trying to assert anything other than I have seen > situations where it is not automatically configured by default. WINS is supposed to be Microsoft's answer to dealing with machine names and IPs across subnets. Perhaps the poster needs a WINS server between both sides of the connections to handle name resolution? They could play with lmhosts file, but that's only useful for static addresses. -- (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.
