Comments on: How can we allow browsing in my network places without wins? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-can-we-allow-browsing-in-my-network-places-without-wins/ Tue, 21 May 2013 15:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: astronomer http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-can-we-allow-browsing-in-my-network-places-without-wins/#comment-42405 astronomer Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:16:38 +0000 #comment-42405 We aren’t using DHCP yet. It’s a long story but it boils down to my predecessor didn’t think it would work in our environment. I am planning to implement DHCP when I restructure the internal network.

We have DNS servers configured on all clients. Most of them, (more each day), are pointed to the active directory integrated DNS servers. The subdomains are in the active directory DNS servers. From any of these systems, we can use nslookup to resolve the IPs of the subdomain servers. The issue is that when you go to my network places, you can’t see the systems in the subdomains.

I have had problems with wins from the day we deployed it at Intel many years ago. The flat name space is an issue. When it was announced, I asked our microsoft rep when they were giong to fix wins. He told me it would be fixed in NT5.0. It turned out the fix was DNS. If we could do everything with DNS we would prefer it.
Thanks.
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]]> By: platypus http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-can-we-allow-browsing-in-my-network-places-without-wins/#comment-42406 platypus Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:01:14 +0000 #comment-42406 While you can probably get this accomplished per the previous answer, I’m wondering why it’s necessary that you get rid of WINS — it typically requires little or no maintenance, and creates little additional overhead or security risks. Just a thought.

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