Alternative required for Birdging over WAN, without using WINS

[Mon]

We have just bought new routers which do not support
bridging over the WAN without great expense. I have been
advised to setup WINS on our network so that our remote
offices (who authenticate thru the head office) can browse
the network etc. I spent a great deal of time getting rid
of a troublesome WINS and implemented 2000 with Active
Directory and DNS which works well except for the WAN
problem when bridging is turned off.

Does anyone know what else I can do without getting 2000
servers at each remote office, or without reinstalling
WINS? My manager does not want to spend any more money,
and I do not want WINS ever again.

Thanx

 

[Brian Oakes [MSFT]]

Why would you not want to install wins? If you put 2 wins servers up, one at
each location and then did a push/pull between the servers and pointed the
clients to their respective servers you would see the desired result.

Most of the wins problems I have seen over the years are just bad
configurations hence people blame so many things on it

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Brian Oakes

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