what to find the WINS server in my LAN
On Nov 15, 6:44 pm, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
hoo.com wrote:
tek wrote:
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I just couldn't figure out how the ping by hostname was bale to work
Did you read the link I posted?
when:
1. I'm using DHCP to acquire IPs from the router
2. The IPs are not in the hosts file
3. The IPs are not in the lmhost file
4. I didn't assign a PC to act as a WINS server
5. Only one PC of the four PCs in the LAN has the Computer Browser
service running
Then it's going to be the master browser. If you don't have a WINS server I
suggest you set computer browser to automatic on all your computers.
My TCP/IP settings for each PC has "Use NetBIOS from DHCP server"
selected. This must be the key to being able to ping by hostname?
Actually, it means NetBIOS over TCP/IP is *enabled* on that computer because
you have a DHCP configured address, basically. Your router is not doing this
name resolution for you
If you don't have WINS or an internal DNS server and can ping a
computer/node by name, it's simply working via broadcast. Is that clearer
now?
The router being a Linksys BEFSR1 v3 router.
Not relevant, tho.
Gotcha, Thanks
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