Wins not performing on Domain Controller without other WINS server

[Guest]

I have 2 Domain Controllers running the Wins. DC1 was the first machine
promoted to WIndows 2000 and has had the service running since it was a NT
4.0 PDC. When it was promoted to Windows 2000, it also had Active Direcxtory
installed. DC2 is being built to take it's place and handle all the services,
DNS, Wins, and DHCP. SO far I have moved DNS and Wins on the new server. DNS
is running fine on DC2 and ithe service is stopped on DC1. However, I stopped
the WINS service on DC1 so that DC2 could handle the traffic instead. I
modified the DHCP options to clients to reflect DC2 was now the WINS server.

It seemed to run fine at first but people started reporting network problems
(mapped drives disappearing, vpn issuesand others, so I restarted the WINS
service on DC1. Now everything is fine.

I did have DC2 doing a push-pull replication to DC1 until last night when I
shut down the WINS service on DC1.

DC1 will be shutdown next month and this is not the first time I have had a
WINS issue. I tried to add another WINS server before and ran into same kind
of problems.

I changed the Active Directory settings so that the PDC emulation was moved
to another server earlier in the month. DC1 should not think it is the PDC
now.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Phillip Windell]

is running fine on DC2 and ithe service is stopped on DC1. However, I stopped
the WINS service on DC1 so that DC2 could handle the traffic instead. I
modified the DHCP options to clients to reflect DC2 was now the WINS server. >
It seemed to run fine at first but people started reporting network problems
(mapped drives disappearing, vpn issuesand others, so I restarted the WINS
service on DC1. Now everything is fine.

Just because you changed it in the scope doesn't mean the change was
reflected at the client. The default lease period might be as high as 8
days. DHCP also won't help on machines that are statically assigned.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for answering.

I will change the static IP's (forgot about them. Should I change the
deafult of 8 days then to a shorter time period ( 1 day ) so that all dhcp
clients get the change at the same time? Then change it back to default
afterwards?

Will let you know.