Originally Posted by
cattletruck
I also vaguely recall you could create a static browser list in NT land as computers had a mysterious habit of dissappearing off the list.
It was a pretty good way of doing multi-subnet browsing of NetBIOS names, having a vote-off of browse-masters per-subnet and then having that subnet-browse-master feed the subnet's info back to the WINS server where the browse lists were aggregated and presented back to the subnet-masters. The only problem was it was too damn slow.
As with anything, you get yourself in a massive pickle if you start hardcoding things in lists hidden in the depths of computers. I tend to try and avoid it at all costs.
Originally Posted by
mixture
And with that paragraph, I really do wonder whether Mike's profile age of 42 is strictly true.
I bear the battle scars of going to many a Earls Court trade conference and batting away the sales weenies shouting "we do Novell!" at us, whilst we triumphantly replied that we didn't, we did TCP/IP.
This, in the early '90s, was met usually with blank looks.
It was also quite amusing to be in training courses where a trainer would spend some time explaining class C and B networks, and then would argue vociferously with us when we pointed out we held two class A networks at the time.
Happy days
