You'll need to assign different IP addresses to different machines on the same network. There is a parallel to mailing addresses. If you're shipping something from an address, and the destination address is the same, how do you get there?
The WINS setup you're talking about, NetBIOS over TCP/IP, is only necessary if you want to find machines by their name, such as \\computername. You'll still be able to find the different machines by IP address if File and Print Sharing are configured properly. You would enter the two slashes into your browser, followed by the IP, like this: \\192.168.5.11
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