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Re: (ASCEND) Max4000 & WINS

WINS is only used by "Microsoft Networking" applications like Network
Neighborhood browsing and CIFS file service. Straight TCP/IP applications
like ping, telnet, ftp, etc. do not query WINS for addresses.

Assigning WINS from the Max works fine for me. (I'm currently on 5.0Ap20
but it worked with earlier versions too.)

At 09:31 AM 9/4/97, Lou Melograna wrote:
>We have a customer who has the IP address of 2 WINS servers 
>set up under:
>
>Ethernet/Mod Config.  They also have a DNS entry set up for 
>their DNS server. They can ping items by name if they are 
>listed on the DNS server just fine. Their complaint is that 
>"WINS doesn't work.".  When the users dial in via modem, they 
>use an IP pool which assigns an address and all IP addresses 
>are pingable, including the WINS servers, and all items by 
>name that are listed in their DNS server. However, they 
>complain that WINS does not work.  In other words, the WINS 
>servers are assigned to the WIn95 dial in clients (they only 
>use TCP/IP as their protocol on the dial-up adapter. However, 
>they cannot ping anything by name (from the dial-in client or 
>the MAX) that is assigned by the WINS server and does not 
>reside in the DNS server.  I do not use WINS enough to 
>understand anything other than it is a way to resolve NetBIOS 
>names from TCP/IP addresses.  Everything else works fine 
>though.  The MAX version is 5.0A.  If this is even a logical 
>question, I am unsure, but I hope someone can help clear this 
>up for me.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Lou.
>
>
>-------------------------------------
>Name: Lou Melograna
>Atrion Communications Resources
>185-I Industrial Parkway
>Branchburg, NJ 08876
>Phone: 908.231.7777 ext.112
>Fax: 908.231.8228
>E-mail: Lou Melograna <lmelogra@AtrionComm.com>
>Date: 9/4/97
>Time: 9:31:00 AM
>
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