Chapter 20. Understanding WINS
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
This hour looks at the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) and issues related to use of the NetBIOS interface, NetBIOS services, NetBIOS names, and NetBIOS name-to-IP-address resolution.
Understanding WINS and NetBIOS
The Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS) was developed in 1983 and used by IBM as a way for computer applications to communicate over a network. NetBIOS is also firmly ingrained into all Microsoft operating systems that have come before the Windows 2000 series. Legacy ...
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