[vpn] Network Neighborhood
dgillett at deepforest.org
dgillett at deepforest.org
Tue Nov 13 17:59:26 EST 2001
On 13 Nov 2001, at 1:00, Ryan Russell wrote:
> In any case, a more interesting question is why can they map
> shares when NN is broken? Two possibilities: I've seen Windows
> machines try several thigns in a row to resolve a particular
> hostname. This includes looking for a browsemaster, then talking
> to WINS, then trying a few different DNS variations. If any of
> those work, then the share can happen. Are your share servers also
> in your DNS table?
Browse masters don't resolve names to addresses -- WINS does. I've
recently encountered (yet another) case where NN includes servers
which WINS cannot resolve -- in the past this was usually because
they were supporting NetBIOS over something other than TCP/IP, in
this latest case it was because WINS replication was broken.
Similarly, in my previous example with Win 9x clients, they were
able to resolve a name to an address via WINS even though they were
unable to contact a browse master to populate NN.
DG
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