On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:06:51 AM Craig White wrote: > ummm... there are WINS master browser elections on every subnet ... 'Master browser election broadcasts' != 'broadcast-based name resolution.' I have measured significant broadcast traffic reduction when migrating from non-WINS to WINS SMB/CIFS name resolution. But this is straying quite far from the OP's question (he doesn't appear to be on a routed network, for one) and from the topic of the list.