[DHCP] RE: Determining request

[Tim Gavin]

"I personally would prefer to not have that functionality anyway"

It appears that Ashley would. . . and Ashley posed the question :-D



On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:49, James Dinkel <jdinkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:41 PM, James Dinkel <jdinkel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Excerpts from James Dinkel's message of Wed Jan 06 11:18:08 -0800 2010:
>>> > Your workstations should have no problem finding the servers across
>>> > subnets
>>> > using DNS.
>>>
>>> DNS can work for Active Directory I believe, but what if the users want
>>> to use or want their "Network Neighborhood" stuff to work?
>>> Sadly, I don't believe this uses DNS.
>>>
>>
>> I don't believe that was brought up as an issue.
>>
>> Network Neighbor will not use DNS to populate it's list but I believe it
>> will use WINS, so you could set up a WINS server if you wanted users to be
>> able to browse each other in Network Neighborhood.  Personally though, I
>> would rather have Network Neighborhood be empty and set up login scripts to
>> map drives to the shares I want the users to have access to.
>
> Oops, if this is accurate:
> http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/wins/winsinfo/index.xml.ID=Browsing
> It looks like you will still not be able to browse computers across subnets
> even with WINS.  But as I said, I personally would prefer to not have that
> functionality anyway.  And since WINS is a deprecated technology, that's
> further motivation to just stick with DNS.
>
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