From: "Rich" 

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   Why?  WINS is fully dynamic.  Manually editing and distributing =
LMHOSTS is crazy.

   I don't know what you mean by nonce-authentication but what you =
describe in your second paragraph sounds like you aren't using DHCP = which
makes sense if your network is based on NetBEUI instead of TCP/IP.

Rich

  "Frank Haber"  wrote in message =
news:3eb7c74b{at}w3.nls.net...
  WINS is hardly practical in a changeable serverless peer environment.  =
I'd
  do better pasting a hand-edited LMHOSTS to each machine.  The =
snappiness of
  broadcast resolution has been in steady decline since my all-Win98 =
days.  If
  you just remembered to keep one desktop machine always up as browser =
master,
  and make sure its NIC management was off, the net card was good and =
wasn't
  some godforsaken PCMCIA or USB thing.

  Someone somewhere in this wireless/wardriving world must be doing =
something
  about nonce-authentication.  I'd be happy with a firmware box that
  registered any MACs knocking at my door, and let me hand-enter that in =
a
  table, then give the knocker a day ticket.



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Rich
 

  "Frank Haber" <frhaber{at}N0SPMrcn.com>">mailto:frhaber{at}N0SPMrcn.com">frhaber{at}N0SPMrcn.com>
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