From: "Rich" 

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   I don't know if WINS servers must be at a fixed address since the =
address is usually supplied to the client via DHCP so if it changed the =
DHCP server can send all clients a refresh.  Even so, I would use a =
static IP for it.  It's simpler.

Rich

  "Frank Haber"  wrote in message =
news:3eb7ebbf$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  If I use WINS, I have to have a static WINS server at a fixed address. =
 It
  would take some readjustment to guarantee that.

  This is a mixed network.  The TCP part generally has 20 fixed =
addresses and
  a pool of 100 addresses served by the DHCP in a SOHO router.  There =
are
  rarely more than 20 machines hot at one time, unless some idiot plugs =
in an
  Airport in some remote corner.


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Rich
 

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