Re: Downside to installing WINS server?

From: tom (lfs_at_home.com)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:14:35 GMT

"Max" <nomail@4me.nl> wrote in message
news:41d7edc4$0$6206$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> tom schreef:
> > I currently have three windows computers and
> > one linux computer behind a linksys blue box.
> > Is there any downside to setting up the linux
> > box as a WINS server?
> >
> > One of the computers
> > is a dual boot machine and when it is booted into
> > linux there is no way to ping the other linux machine
> > by name. This is because the linksys box serves
> > IP addresses using dhcp but no names. Will setting
> > up a WINS server solve this problem?
> >
> >
> WINS only has effect on Windows machines, so it will not help you
> translate a system name into an adress for Linux. Why not put the other
> linux machine in /etc/hosts?
> If you want to run WINS on a linux box in a Windows enviroment, there is
> no downside as far as I'm aware of..
>
> Good luck,
> Max

My dhcp server does not give out names
so /etc/hosts is not an alternative.

If WINS has name to ip address mappings, why
cant WINS be used by two linux machines running
Samba on the windows network?

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