Netbios Names

[Pix_User]

We have connected 2 subnets using a router. They now can communicate
via their IP addresses. Does anyone what to do to allow PCs to
communicate via Their Netbios names?

 

[Steve Duff [MVP]]

You can either enable NetBIOS broadcast passthrough on
your router (not really recommended), or you can turn up
WINS service and point everyone to it, if you have a
Windows Server running somewhere on the LAN to run
WINS on.

And, if you are using static IP addresses and have a small number
of machines, you could create static lmhosts files, and
distribute it to the individual workstations. This becomes
unmanageable very quickly, and is more of a theoretical
possibility than anything you'd likely want to use.

Steve Duff, MCSE
Ergodic Systems, Inc.