[c-nsp] Windows networking across subnets

[Robert Boyle]

At 01:39 PM 2/14/2008, Mike Blodgett wrote:

> > MS 2000.
> >
> > I am just looking to see if there is a router/network hardware solution for
> > this. The do not want to map drives,
> > they want to see all shares/printers in Network Barrio. Welcome to
> > government. If there is not a network solution
> > that is all I need to know; then it becomes "not my problem".
> >
> >
>Not really a Windows guy either, but if you are running NBT (netbios
>over tcp), to get all the entries in
>the network neighborhood you would have to run a WINS server.  If you
>disable NBT in
>favor of raw smb over TCP, I'm not sure but I'd guess the WINS
>functionality was put into active directory.

WINS is old technology from Windows NT and hasn't been needed for WAN 
networking with Windows since 2000. If you are using active directory 
and only use Windows 2000/2003/2008/XP/Vista computers and haven't 
restricted any ports needed by Windows networking, just set the 
remote side to use the AD servers for DNS and the remote machines 
will register themselves and everything will just work. Obviously, 
all computers you want to talk need to have their default gateway and 
netmask set appropriately too.

-Robert



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