Name resolution

With regard to the VPN/WINS problem I discussed in a post a couple of
days ago, I am now convinced that the problem is almost certainly that
Win2K SP4 adds domain qualifiers to NetBios names before name
resolution. Thus with normal h-mode search, or any other, the search
defaults to DNS.

So the bottom-line question seems to be this. Is there a registry
setting that tells Windows to add domain qualifiers to ping and to
winsock apps before starting name resolution and can it safely be
changed so that the qualifiers are not added?



Jerry Paquette