Subj : Re: Network bindings ques To : Neil.Santos From : Geo. Date : Thu Mar 29 2001 11:29 am From: "Geo." wrote in message news:208f09.7c2060@harborwebs.com... > 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? they didn't do away with wins, they took wins and dns and rewrote them from the ground up for W2K. It's basically the centerpiece of the W2K networking stuff. It completely restructures how a domain is formed using a forest and trees approach now (much like DNS works on the internet but with a few twists like the new kerberos stuff that everyone was complaining was proprietary). Geo. --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .