When to use WINS

Hi,

When do you use WINS? When using NT 4.0 computers and Windows98? More than
20 computers? More than 50?
Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Sven Aeyels.

quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
NetBIOS and WINS are required in a mixed network

NetBIOS and WINS name resolution is required only on mixed-mode (Windows 95,
98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP) networks to provide backward-compatibility older
versions of Windows. If you have a domain mixed-mode network with DHCP and
DNS, you are better to cerate WINS in your system. In workgroup mixed-mode
network, most people enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP to resolve NetBIOS name to
equivalent to IP addresses. Alternatively, you can install NetBEUI protocol
in the clients.


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"Sven Aeyels" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> When do you use WINS? When using NT 4.0 computers and Windows98? More than
> 20 computers? More than 50?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sven Aeyels.
>
>

Use Wins when you have NT 4.0, Windows ME or 9X clients and have more than
one subnet.

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Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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"Sven Aeyels" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> When do you use WINS? When using NT 4.0 computers and Windows98? More than
> 20 computers? More than 50?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sven Aeyels.
>
>