[DHCP] RE: Determining request

[James Dinkel]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:41 PM, James Dinkel <jdinkel at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
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>> Excerpts from James Dinkel's message of Wed Jan 06 11:18:08 -0800 2010:
>> > Your workstations should have no problem finding the servers across
>> subnets
>> > using DNS.
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>> DNS can work for Active Directory I believe, but what if the users want
>> to use or want their "Network Neighborhood" stuff to work?
>> Sadly, I don't believe this uses DNS.
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> I don't believe that was brought up as an issue.
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> Network Neighbor will not use DNS to populate it's list but I believe it
> will use WINS, so you could set up a WINS server if you wanted users to be
> able to browse each other in Network Neighborhood.  Personally though, I
> would rather have Network Neighborhood be empty and set up login scripts to
> map drives to the shares I want the users to have access to.
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Oops, if this is accurate:
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/wins/winsinfo/index.xml.ID=Browsing
It looks like you will still not be able to browse computers across subnets
even with WINS.  But as I said, I personally would prefer to not have that
functionality anyway.  And since WINS is a deprecated technology, that's
further motivation to just stick with DNS.
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