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  3. June 2004

Re: Using IFS for Antivirus Updates to PC's ?

Hi,

> It lists all machines in the domain. All machines are on the same subnet. I
> assume it is using some form of broadcast since it will only show machines
> that are currently "on" the network.

When there's no WINS server defined, old windows PCs will switch to using
a broadcast system where they all talk to each other every few seconds and
update each other, and hold elections, and all sorts of nifty things.

This is done with NetBIOS.  It doesn't need to use DNS...  DNS wasn't
available for Windows shares until, I think, Windows 2000.  Though, SAMBA
has been using it for longer than that.

I assume that /QNTC works the same way as the older Windows does...

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