DNS and UNC name resolution

[Danieltbt05]

Usually using WINS , i can use UNC to map network drives to other
server. But if i only use DNS/AD name resolution, can i use UNC name to
access other server ? Pls advise thanks

Regards
Daniel

 

[Richard G. Harper]

In theory, in a simple network, yes.

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Yes, even if NetBIOS is disabled you can resolve the name with DNS. Double
check that computers have the default check box to append the DNS suffix in
their TCP/IP Advanced Properties.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[danieltan]

Doug, doesnt that UNC requires netbios ? So wins got netbios , but does
dns have it ?

Regards
Daniel

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

As a practical matter in workgroup environments and probably under older
versions of Windows, you needed NetBIOS because it was your only source of
name resolution and/or it was necessary for file sharing. Now with SMB
hosting over TCP/IP, as long as you have some means of resolving names, such
as DNS, you can connect to \\servername\sharename. Not sure what happens if
you try to use lmhosts files without NetBIOS - probably won't work, but
hosts files should. Also, without NetBIOS you cannot browse and in general
I do not advocate disabling it because a surprising number of familiar tasks
rely on it.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MSCA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Danieltbt05]

Doug, whats SMB ? but u still advise putting netbios on even the SMB in
on ? But just using dns without SMB we can't browse network right ?
Thanks

Regards
Daniel

 

[Raji A]

Hi
If I have an alias as the cname for a server in DNS, is it possible to
specify this vname in a UNC path to connect printers or a share on that
server.
What I want to do is map a share or printer using the CNAME instead of the
computer name.
Is this possible, as when I try I get this error

'You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. Go
to Sys
tem in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again.'

Thanks
RajiA