On Dec 2, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > 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. ---- I think 'recommended' is a bit of a stretch - it is a possibility. AD dispensed with WINS and uses only DNS for host resolution but it exists for non-AD / legacy / home usage. Craig