The mapping WINS does is ASCII to Unicode. ASCII characters are the first 128 characters of Unicode. Windows NT uses Unicode as its default character set (something MS actually did correctly). This is true with one exception. WINS maps each character of the NETBIOS name to TWO characters in a really weird way. I guess that they did this because the name field in DNS is twice as long as the NETBIOS names. This only becomes a problem if you have to sniff the packets. I have a conversion table that I made for this purpose if you need it. RFC1001 and RFC1002 should explain the whole thing. > ----------
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