Follow the discussion of WINS and DNS in the online forum. Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) has been, up to Windows NT 4, the preferred name service in the Windows environment. Now with ...

In most cases, the naming server contacted is a Windows Internet Naming Server (WINS). Technically, you could create a NetBIOS naming server that is not a WINS server, but it is rarely done.

The WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) is the Microsoft implementation of the NBNS (NetBIOS Name Server), a server that stores the NetBIOS names. Windows computers also store the NetBIOS name ...

That’s surprising because WINS is the name service for NetBIOS networks, and NetBIOS saw only limited implementation in Windows 2000 as it was quickly supplanted by the TCP/IP protocol and the DNS.

Select Local Area Connection or whatever your connection name is, and right-click on Properties. Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). ... To disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP in Windows 11, ...

Internet security monitoring groups are warning Microsoft Windows users about new Internet attacks aimed at Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 machines running WINS (Windows Internet ...