What is WINS?

John Savill

March 4, 1999

1 Min Read
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A. WINS stands for Windows Internet Name Service. WINS is a NetBIOS Name Server that registers your NetBIOS names and resolves into IP addresses.

If you're using NetBIOS over TCP/IP you will need to have WINS running so that each can find out the correct IP address of the other to communicate.

Need to browse over an interdomain network? WINS!

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