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I have no WINS there and I "see" all clients in the dropdown list to
select them from.
Philipp

Walden H. Leverich schrieb:

Definitely not ! You don't need WINS to get Symantec Antivirus to do that, I do it without WINS
at a customers site with all W2K and WinXP boxes, it does all fine.



You've gotten Client Rollout to work off a DNS server? The only way I've gotten it to "see" the machines for me to deploy to is WINS or by loading the IPs into a text file and importing.

-Walden

PS. I never said I _like_ WINS, just that I've found it's necessary in
some cases.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philipp Rusch
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Using IFS for Antivirus Updates to PC's ?

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Walden H. Leverich schrieb:



From: Philipp Rusch
If you use the windows server machine DON'T GO WINS !
Even Microsoft doesn't recommend it's use anymore, the way to go is




DNS,

In theory I agree, however a number of things still rely on a WINS
server being around. If you're in an all XP environment and have no 3rd
party software that wants WINS you're ok, but otherwise it's been my
experience that you still need WINS.


BTW, the QNTC subsystem wants a WINS server. And in my case Symantec's
AntiVirus wants a WINS server to discover the network.




Definitely not ! You don't need WINS to get Symantec Antivirus to do that, I do it without WINS
at a customers site with all W2K and WinXP boxes, it does all fine.


What is so BAD about WINS that one would very much like to avoid its use

in a network ?
It's simply the fact that WINS uses broadcasts throughout your whole network every so and so
seconds. This produces a "background noise" in your net and wastes
bandwith.
There are better ways around, one is DDNS.




-Walden

------------
Walden H Leverich III
President & CEO
Tech Software
(516) 627-3800 x11
WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.TechSoftInc.com


Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)




Just my 2 cents,
Philipp
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