Mark Shuford wrote:
Well, this isn't DOS; it says windows. There's a checkie box
(TM)(SM)(C)(BS) in the Windows setup, somewhere, that says 'use DNS for
name resolution' or some such. That and setting stuff in the DNS tab is
s'posed to do what you're after.
I'm pretty sure what Roy was asking about a is true, honest-to-gosh
MS-DOS environment. Probably along the lines of version 6.22. In this
ancient land, where things were not good and the age was still dark,
life was not happy. Vendors came up with their own networking
protocols, installing drivers involved editing configuration files
*gasp*, and the average user was glum, toiling away at his forge trying
to make something sharp with which to kill his neighbor, when all of his
tools were dull.
In the more modern world, M$ has learned from a few of their mistakes,
and stopped trying to reinvent the wheel. They're resorted to what
works best, copying the ideas that came before you, and improving upon
them (also known as evolution). Thus, a modern windows system uses
Active Directory (which is LDAP and Kerberos, using DNS as the name
lookup method). But being a corporate entity obsessed with backward
compatibility, they still support the old NetBios protocols, as well as
their name look and resolution. So yes, a modern windows system can do
both DNS and NetBios resolution, but an older DOS system can not use DNS
for name resolution of network shares, unfortunately.
Aaron S. Joyner
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