Re: ANNOUNCE: gnomba 0.1

[Hawlisch Martin <hawlisch roxi rz fh-mannheim de>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, James Henstridge wrote:

> Another way of locating machines would be to talk to the WINS naming
> server.  Most networks that have many windows boxes talking netbios over 
> TCP (the system administrator usually puts one in when the amount 
> broadcast packets gets too high).  It maps SMB names to IP addresses. I
> don't know if you can ask it to give you its complete database (if it
> could do that, you might set up a robust backup wins server running on a
> non NT box :).
If you can query it, it will also list machines from other subnets. That
way it should be faster.


 Cheers, Martin.

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