Can Wins Clients see Non Wins Clients?

[Chris Dove]

We are fully Win2K AD, apart ftom 2NT4 SQL Servers. If we remove the Wins
details from the 2K clients but leave them on the 2 NT4 Servers, can they
see the 2K clients and vice versa?

TIA

Chris

 

[Richard Moreno]

Hi Chris-

Yes, this will work as W2K uses DNS for primary name resolution and your NT4
uses WINS as primary.

 

[Chris Dove]

Thanks Richard,

But if the 2K clients aren't registered with WINS how do the NT4 Machines
resolve their names?

Chris

 

[Steven L Umbach]

As long as you have downlevel members of your domain and use netbios
browsing such as via Network Places you will want to continue to use wins.
In addition to resovling netbios names, wins is used to dynamically register
computer netbios names in the wins datatbase. If you remove the W2K
computers as wins clients, their dynamic records will be removed from the
wins datatbase. The downlevel clients may be able to find them, but they
will resort to undesirable broadcasting which will not work accross subnets
for which you would need lmhosts files configured on the NT4.0 machines or
to statically configure the wins records which only makes sense for non dhcp
clients. --- Steve

 

[Richard Moreno]

MS DHCP on 2000 can tie into your WINS and DNS for name resolution as can MS
DNS on 2000. So your 2k clients should be ok there. Is there any way you can
try this in a lab environment?

 

[Chris Dove]

Thanks very much both of you. I think it's going to be easier to maintain
WINS for a while longer!