Subj : Re: Network bindings ques
To   : Chris Robinson
From : Neil Santos
Date : Tue Mar 27 2001 08:03 pm

Reply to a message Chris wrote on 03-27-01  10:06, for Randall

 CR> AFAIK WINS is just like DNS.  It stands for Windows Internal Naming
 CR> System (probably?) and resolves computer's network id's in a domain or
 CR> workgroup. 

actually, wins stands for "windows internet naming service". to quote from 
"running microsoft windows nt server 4.0" from microsoft press, "wins was 
designed to provide a flexible name-to-number mapping system that would allow 
computers to communicate across ruoter boundaries and would easily map netbios 
names to ip addresses. when winds is combined with bns, it provides dynamic 
name resolution ability."

 CR> I *think* they've done away with WINS in Win2k and it's now purely
 CR> just DNS. Correct me if I'm wrong.

have they? why? i mean, wins and dns are two differrent services, if this book 
i have is to be trusted. why would microsoft opt to take out nt's ability to 
provide dynamic name resolution?

iirc, i've seen a wins service running on 2k, but i can't really be sure, since 
the last time i've used w2k was when it was still in rc2
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