WINS and Windows Server 2003

[Me]

I know that in Windows NT4, the advice was to configure
the WINS server to have it's own IP address in both
Primary and Secondary WINS servers as it's local IP
configuration. This would mean that the WINS server at
192.168.1.5 would have DNS as (eg) 192.168.1.7 and WINS
servers as 192.168.1.5 and 192.168.1.5 even if there were
other WINS servers on the network.

But, with Windows Server 2003, where there can be 12 WINS
servers configured in the IP config of a server, does
that mean that if a Windows 2003 server is a WINS server
that it needs to have it's own IP address in the WINS
servers 12 times? Or can it have the other WINS servers
on the network set in it's WINS configuration?

 

[Brennan Crowe [MSFT]]

The rule still goes. You should only have a WINS server point to itself.
In Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003, you will only need to put
the entry in there once unlike the situation in Windows NT 4.0 Server which
required it to be in there twice.

185786 Recommended Practices for WINS
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=185786

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Thank you,

Brennan Crowe
Microsoft Corporation

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