Translations:Vpnc/99/en

If you need to connect to a Windows machine which doesn't have a DNS entry, and you know the address of an available WINS server, you can use a tool called  to query the WINS server for the host name of the machine you want to connect to. Unfortunately, you have to install  to get it, but if you are going to be working with boxes running Windows you might as well want to install samba, because it includes several other useful tools.