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WINS Proxies

WINS servers provide name registration, renewal, release, and resolution services only to WINS clients. In environments with client systems that cannot use WINS, such as UNIX systems, there is a way to configure your network so that the WINS server can provide a subset of these services to non-WINS clients via a WINS proxy. The services that a WINS proxy provides are as follows:

Name registration. A WINS proxy listens for name registration broadcasts from non-WINS clients and forwards the registration to the WINS server. Note that the name is not registered; it is only checked to ensure that no WINS client has the same name registered.
Name resolution. WINS proxies also forward name resolution broadcasts to the WINS server for resolution. The WINS server processes the query and sends the information to the WINS proxy, which then forwards the query result to the non-WINS client.
Name renewal and release. Because the non-WINS client does not have a database entry in the WINS server database, the server does not provide name renewal and release ser-vices to non-WINS clients.

Implementing a WINS proxy is straightforward: all you needs to do is modify one registry value on the computer that is to become the WINS proxy. WINS proxies cannot be WINS servers, and must be WINS clients. Also, no more than two WINS proxies can reside on one subnet. If your environment requires a WINS proxy, the installation procedure is shown below:

As with any other operations using the Registry Editor, please be careful. Making a recovery disk before using the Registry Editor is a good idea.

To configure a client as a WINS proxy, start the Registry Editor, and change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Services\NetBT\Parameters\EnableProxy parameter to 1 (REG_DWORD value type).

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