On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 17:39 +0930, Tim wrote: > 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? > Netbios, WINS, and zeroconf all play in here. Generally if a WINS server is running and the client has it configured for use then any netbios host name and address can be resolved at any time with no DNS server interaction. > -- > (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. > >
