Dell 2355dn Multifunction Mono Laser Printer - Manual (Page 29)

Appendix B. Management protocols 27
WINS
Before Dynamic DNS was defined, DNS could only be updated manually
when DHCP servers automatically provided (or removed) IP addresses. As a
result, DNS servers often contained obsolete listings. In response, Microsoft
developed Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) to solve this problem for
NetBIOS names.
Microsoft recommends moving to Dynamic DNS and away from WINS.
However, many customers including Microsoft maintain WINS systems and
need devices to interoperate with WINS. So devices must, at least for now,
support WINS interoperability to allow for dynamic NetBIOS name to IP
address registration and resolution.
WINS provides a distributed database for registering and querying dynamic
NetBIOS names to IP address mapping in a routed network environment.
This is the best choice for NetBIOS name resolution in such a routed network
because it is designed to solve the problems that occur with name resolution
in complex Internet networks.
Configuring WINS
Access Embedded Web Service and go to Printer Server Settings Print
Server Settings TCP/IP Primary WINS Server Address/Secondary
WINS Server Address. You will configure two WINS server addresses, the
Primary WINS Server or the Secondary WINS Server. The default value is
0.0.0.0.
In a DHCP server
A DHCP server can support the NBNS (NetBIOS Name Server) option. An
administrator has to set the WINS server IP address in the NBNS option.
1 Set the IP assignment method of your network print server to DHCP.
2 Reboot the print server.
The WINS server will update the printer's NetBIOS name in its database.
Users can use the printer name instead of its IP address.
In the network print server
1 Configure the WINS server address through Embedded Web Service.
2 Reboot the print server.