What is WINS?
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What is WINS?
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In multiple network environments, a service named Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) is used to resolve the NetBIOS names to their IP addresses. It is necessary to integrate a network with WINS if the network contains computers that run previous versions of Windows such as Windows NT, Windows 98, and Windows Me. The WINS server maintains a database of NetBIOS names to IP address mappings similar to the DNS server. The client computers that are configured with the IP address of the WINS server send name resolution requests to the WINS server. The WINS server then resolves these requests and sends the corresponding IP addresses to the clients.
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