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. ... > 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.