Wins creating 1mb log files

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Hi,
I am having a really strange problem. I have a wins server which keeps
generating 1mb log files. It does this until there is no more diskspace.
It will flush the log files and start again. I have tried several things.
Removed all replication partners,manually zeroed out the database,
reinstalled service pack 4 and re-install wins. No errors real errors in
the event viewer other than the one which get created when disk space gets
low.... and the Wins.exe is running at 30% processor utilization which is
abnormal. I am at my witts end.

It's a windows 2000 server with service pack 4.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Hi,
I am having a really strange problem. I have a wins server which keeps
generating 1mb log files. It does this until there is no more diskspace.
It will flush the log files and start again. I have tried several things.
Removed all replication partners,manually zeroed out the database,
reinstalled service pack 4 and re-install wins. No errors real errors in
the event viewer other than the one which get created when disk space gets
low.... and the Wins.exe is running at 30% processor utilization which is
abnormal. I am at my witts end.

It's a windows 2000 server with service pack 4.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello,

I had this too on one of our Win2k SP4 servers. I'm not sure exactly
what the source of the problem was but think it was an XP client. This
particular client (SP1) was showing high network traffic and its
hostname was found in the WINS logs files repeatedly.

Restarting the client and truncating the WINS logs (by performing an
online WINS backup) resolved the issue.

Kris
 
Hi Kris,

Thanks for the info.... I ended up calling Microsoft Support yesterday

Your right it was an Win XP client causing my problem but it was a little
different. This client kept registering itself to WINS and basically
flooding the wins directory with log files.

It had a service called NetDDE (Network Dynamic Data Exchange) enabled. We
don't use it here and I am not sure how it got enabled. Once, I disabled
it off the client my problems was resloved.

Thanks Again,
Laura
 
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