On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 12:22 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > A Windows machine can get any hostname that is on the WINS server > without using DNS. Can it do that for anything, or only as a side effect of a prior action. e.g. If you ping "machinename" (an unimaginative example hostname), and nothing else has had any traffic with "machinename", will it work? Or would you have had to do something with SMB beforehand, and Windows had cached the address? -- (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.
