[Bloat] Windows file sharing broken with RC6 ?

[Dave Hart]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 15:38, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> If I can access another computer on the wired network by name, that
> means that the WINS server is working, right?  The problem is that I
> can't access another computer by name (only by IP address) when it is
> on a different subnet.

Not necessarily.  I don't have experience with Windows 7, but
generally MS clients have been able to resolve netbios hostnames on
the same subnet via broadcast name resolution even if the WINS server
is sick.  It's only when reaching across subnets that WINS is
essential in providing the flat namespace.

Cheers,
Dave Hart