2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
2:54 p.m.
On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote:
[netbios naming is] like a roomfull of people yelling out their own name all the time as a means of identification with no way to handle those out of hearing distance or to arbitrate duplicates.
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But that's a matter of luck, demanding that no one uses duplicates, and that all machines can broadcast to each other (i.e., no routers between them...).
WINS does not work this way. WINS works fine even when nodes are separated by routers and is the recommended way (at least by MS) to do SMB/CIFS name resolution in a routed network.