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| Originally Posted by deedje I'm not agree with you :
"[..] the "Network Neighborhood" functionality requires WINS."
If you plug 2 windows laptops together with a cross cable, you'll see each other in the network neighborhood list. No WINS required. Just many NBT annoucment. |
The NBT announcement is a broadcast so it won't cross a router (or a firewall), thus the need for WINS.
The answer from M$ BTW is don't depend on browsing to work over any VPN connection. It seems to with WINS most of the time though.