Re: Macintosh and WINS

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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:50:07 -0600

On 2/20/04 11:59 AM, in article eTJ#At99DHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
"Byron Kendrick" <bkendrick@austincollege.edu> wrote:

> Yes helps a lot. Kinda said what I expected about the DNS. I don't think
> we will be able to get away form the DNS. Implementing WINS was suggested
> to get away from NETbeui. It was suggested that DNS could be removed also.
> Forget that. More ammunition to add to the "upgrade the network" arsenal.

Hi Byron!

NeTBeui is an old network protocol similar in function to Apple's Appletalk.
A NetBeui machine will broadcast information about itself and use broadcasts
to discover other NetBeui clients on the network. It also is non-routable,
which means that it can not see NetBeui machines outside its own network
segment.

WINS is Microsoft's implementation of "DNS for Windows" in a NetBios
environment. A central server contains a database of machines and their
addresses and can help any machine in any network locate someone else. It
eliminates the need for NetBeui and improves network performance by
eliminating all those broadcasts.

Today, DNS is the de facto name resolution system for any IP based network.
Many networks still may use WINS, but WINS is going away as more and more
machines lose dependency on NetBios applications.

For someone to suggest installing WINS and removing DNS is crazy!

bill

-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)
A great resource for Mac OS X deployment
http://www.macosxlabs.org

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