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What is a WINS Proxy Agent?

April 26, 2017agent proxy Wins

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What is a WINS Proxy Agent?

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A. If you have non-WINS machines on your subnet and want them to be visible participants, you will want a Proxy Agent to be active within this subnet. A WINS Proxy Agent is a WINS client that allows non-WINS clients to participate, by listening for broadcast name registrations and requests and then forwards them to a WINS server. Use Registry Editor to open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters and set the EnableProxy parameter to 1.