On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 01:06 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 09:11 -0500, Justin Willmert wrote: > > I'm not an expert, but by how I've always understood it, Windows > > machines use DNS entries, hosts file entries, and *NetBIOS* name > > broadcasts to look up other computers. > e network > As far as I was aware, they only played with NetBIOS to find machines > when doing SMB type of things (Windows file sharing). Other TCP/IP > network activities, didn't. Hi Tim, I was very surprised, about a year ago, when I found that you could just type in the NetBIOS name in a browser, and 9 times out of 10, if the Windows system with that NetBIOS name was running a web server, you'd see the default page displayed. You can also ping a Windows system using only the NetBIOS name. I think this worked because the network I was in had a WINS server. -- Pascal Chong email: chongym cymulacrum net web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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