Re: Name resolution is not enough

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From: Julius Marlowe (JuliusMarlowe_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 03:11:01 -0700

"Mike Singer" wrote:

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> are trying to get rid of wins and go DNS only. This issues only occurs with
> servers that are not registering in WINS. Resolution works great but
> networking does not always.

Does not registering in WINS mean that the node type is remains broadcast, and that fails to open a server where DNS or IP address succeeds?
We have a similar problem, even with the use of LMHOSTS. I wish I understood under which conditions a 2000 client uses broadcast NetBIOS name resolution and nothing else.

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