Understanding the Need for Legacy Microsoft NetBIOS Resolution
WINS is effectively a simple database of NetBIOS names and their corresponding IP addresses. Some additional information, such as domain name, server type or service type, and so on, can be determined as well, from the 16th byte in a NetBIOS name stored in WINS.
WINS is considered legacy in the Microsoft world because NetBIOS resolution is being phased out in favor of the domain name system (DNS) form of name resolution. However, it is difficult to divorce WINS from modern networks because of the reliance on WINS by down-level (pre-Windows 2000) clients, legacy applications, and even some Microsoft services, such as the Distributed File System (DFS), that utilize NetBIOS resolution ...
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