What is wins?

[smp]

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Don't send me to google I beg you!
I am reading too much stuff right now as it is.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Heh, another thing Ive heard about, but never studied enough to be confident in my answer. I *think* (and the Windows guys like Saltin can flame me if Im wrong 😉) its similar to DNS. Its a name to ip(?) type conversion system for Windows networks.

 

[smp]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Heh, another thing Ive heard about, but never studied enough to be confident in my answer. I *think* (and the Windows guys like Saltin can flame me if Im wrong 😉) its similar to DNS. Its a name to ip(?) type conversion system for Windows networks.

So microsoft has taken a standard (DNS) and made their own? You mean like J++ et al?

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: smp

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Heh, another thing Ive heard about, but never studied enough to be confident in my answer. I *think* (and the Windows guys like Saltin can flame me if Im wrong 😉) its similar to DNS. Its a name to ip(?) type conversion system for Windows networks.

So microsoft has taken a standard (DNS) and made their own? You mean like J++ et al?

With Win 2K server they have made the dns server the server that does host name resolution on the local network, so WINS is no longer neccisary. Older networks however (NT) the DNS server would not resolve local hostnames, just domain to ip (very basic and simple). I think I got that right, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: smp

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Heh, another thing Ive heard about, but never studied enough to be confident in my answer. I *think* (and the Windows guys like Saltin can flame me if Im wrong 😉) its similar to DNS. Its a name to ip(?) type conversion system for Windows networks.

So microsoft has taken a standard (DNS) and made their own? You mean like J++ et al?

Like I said, I dont know much about it. But I doubt it scales well enough to take over the internet or something.

 

[smp]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: smp

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey Heh, another thing Ive heard about, but never studied enough to be confident in my answer. I *think* (and the Windows guys like Saltin can flame me if Im wrong 😉) its similar to DNS. Its a name to ip(?) type conversion system for Windows networks.

So microsoft has taken a standard (DNS) and made their own? You mean like J++ et al?

Like I said, I dont know much about it. But I doubt it scales well enough to take over the internet or something.

I don't know .. yesturday at work the internet broke!!! ...and I couldn't get my email 🙁
I think it was wins :|


Hey ... so what is the purpose of wins on win2k then? The reason i'm asking all this stuff is cause I've been playing with samba past little while and I'm trying to figure out what all that wins stuff is all aboot. Like, I can see my samba share in network neighbourhood, but when I double click to open, I get "can't connect to host" or some such thing .. but when I do a file://\\192.168.0.xx" it goes .. so what gives?

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: smp
Hey ... so what is the purpose of wins on win2k then? The reason i'm asking all this stuff is cause I've been playing with samba past little while and I'm trying to figure out what all that wins stuff is all aboot. Like, I can see my samba share in network neighbourhood, but when I double click to open, I get "can't connect to host" or some such thing .. but when I do a <a href="file://\\192.168.0.xx">file://\\192.168.0.xx</A>" it goes .. so what gives?

Hrmph...
Got me, it's obviously resolving the host otherwise you wouldnt see it in network neighborhood.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I dunno. I figure the WINS thing in win2k is for backwards compatibility.

 

[smp]

Originally posted by: spyordie007

Originally posted by: smp Hey ... so what is the purpose of wins on win2k then? The reason i'm asking all this stuff is cause I've been playing with samba past little while and I'm trying to figure out what all that wins stuff is all aboot. Like, I can see my samba share in network neighbourhood, but when I double click to open, I get "can't connect to host" or some such thing .. but when I do a file://\\192.168.0.xx" it goes .. so what gives?

Hrmph... Got me, it's obviously resolving the host otherwise you wouldnt see it in network neighborhood.

That's what I woulda thunk .. I bet it's that lousy wins screwing everything up :|
I left my wins configuration untouched on my win2k machine .. and I have another machine running smb (my debian box) and the wins part of smb.conf is untouched in there and it works just fine.

edit: Wicked! It's my 3666th post :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :|

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: smp
edit: Wicked! It's my 3666th post :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :| :|

Kick Ass!
In response to N0cmonkey: yes I think the only reason 2K has it is for backwards compatibility. Windows 2000 domains have tons of extra things part of AD for backwards compatibility. It seems like the properties of every 2nd or 3rd MMC item have "pre windows 2000" compatibility worked in...

-Spy

 

[bozo1]

Pre-W2K, Wins complimented DHCP. When a workstation registers with a Wins server, it's IP address is updated to whatever it is using that day. (DHCP lease expired, workstation relocated to another subnet, etc.) Before Active Directory, Microsoft's DNS wasn't dynamic so Wins was their way to resolve Netbios names to IP addresses.

 

[Need4Speed]

"WINS is a Microsoft NetBIOS name server (NBNS),WINS Eliminates the need for broadcasts to resolve computer names to IP addresses. "

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
"WINS is a Microsoft NetBIOS name server (NBNS),WINS Eliminates the need for broadcasts to resolve computer names to IP addresses. "

This is exactly what this thread needed, thanks need4speed!