Re: hostname and dhcp question

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

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.

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.

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