RE: NETBIOS: Retrieve Windows Computer Name and Workgroup via AS/400

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. RE: NETBIOS: Retrieve Windows Computer Name and Workgroup via
>      AS/400 (Walden H. Leverich)
>
>>Normally, if I want to 'discover' stuff about the network, I start
>>with [net view /domain] and go from there. I haven't used nbtscan.
>
>Keep in mind too that MS is rapidly moving away from domains (in the
>LanManager sense of the term) and NetBIOS in favor of pure IP and IP
>domains. WINS servers are legacy servers at this point, and it's
>possible, and even preferable, to run a windows network on only DNS
>servers.


Wish I knew enough about this to have an intelligent dialog. My knowledge goes 
only as far as to say that there have been no explicit WINS servers in this 
network for at least five years that I'm certain of and probably never since 
the network was created. Right now, AFAIK, we indeed run via DNS; and [net 
view] works fine.

All of our AS/400s appear as they should, within their configured domain(s). 
ActiveDirectory has been somewhat in control for quite a while -- two years? -- 
though I know almost nothing about it beyond that.

As for how/why...? And what does it mean for WINS...? Beyond my knowledge.

Tom Liotta

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