RE: AS/400 and WINS Name Resolution

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: AS/400 and WINS Name Resolution

Lamar,

 

To the best of my knowledge, the AS/400 doesn't do NetBIOS over TCP/IP. However, there are other ways to accomplish your goal.

 

If you use static IP addresses, you can create the mappings directly on the AS/400 by configuring the Host Table Entries in the TCP/IP setup.

 

If you're using dynamic addresses, you're going to have to at least activate DNS on an NT server. Fortunately, you don't need to define all the mappings.

 

The DNS and WINS servers can be used cooperatively in NT.  You need to start the DNS service so that it can accept queries, and you need to setup a WINS lookup resource record in the zone root domain. This resource record is a proprietary Microsoft extension that basically forces the DNS server to check with the WINS server if it can't satisfy the request itself. The setup is fairly well documented in the NT resource kit - which I don't have in front of me right now. I'm sure that you could also find the documentation somewhere on the MS website.

 

 

HTH,

 

John Taylor

Canada

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Lamar Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 6:02 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: AS/400 and WINS Name Resolution

We are running a Windows NT network and have two WINS servers (we are not running DNS). We also have four AS/400's on our network as well. All of our client PC's are running "IBM Client Access" for 5250 sessions to the AS/400. I have a user trying to use the "Remote Procedure Command" to run a command on a PC. They reference the PC by it's Windows NetBios name. Of course the AS/400 can't find the PC because the AS/400 doesn't use NetBios.

Can the AS/400 be configured to reference the WINS servers for NetBios Name Resolution? Our AS/400 is a model 170 running OS/400 V4R2. Thanks for your help.

Lamar Thomas

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