win2k3 sbs wins-server startup problems

[Charles Collette]

ls.,

Last friday our Windows 2003 small bussiness server suddenly reboted
without any warning. I have read all the messages in the event logs,
but have no idea why it reboted.
When it restarted it gave a message that one service didn't start. It
turned out to be the wins-server. Manually starting this gives the
following messages in the event log:

WINS could not create the notification socket. Make sure the TCP/IP
driver is installed and running properly.

and:

The Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) service terminated with
service-specific error 3758096386 (0xE0000002).

I have been looking on the Microsoft site, the internet serveral books
but didn't find how to solve this problem and start wins again.
TCP/IP is running, all users can login te server, but some programs
seem to use netbios (wins) to work and won't work anymore. Have tryed
to solve it with lmhost files on the windows 2000 clients, but
unsuccesfull.

Found article Q299451 in Microsoft knowledge base, but this seems like
overkill. Is there any other way to repair the wins-server?

tia,
Charles Collette

 

[Shilpa Sinha [MSFT]]

Hi

Maybe this will help.

CAUSE
=====

During the WINS Server service initialization, the service checks for the
port number that the Name service will bind to. The service does this by
calling the GetServByName API. This API must locate the Services file under
System32\Drivers directory. If the Services file is missing, the
GetServByName API will fail. The result is that the WINS Service will raise
an exception indicating that the service could not create the notification
socket. This exception will be logged in the error log as Event ID 4179.


RESOLUTION
==========
Make sure that the Services file is in the System32\Drivers directory.
The Services file provides service-name-to-port-ID resolution for Windows
Sockets applications.


This error can occur if the database is corrupted or Nbt threads fail to be
created. This can also be caused by a Winsock error.
Check The following link for How to Manually Recreate a WINS Database

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];168712

Shilpa Sinha
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