Re: How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

[Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx>]

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.
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