WINS Server

[Tom Rogers]

I currently have a Native W2K Server domain, my main DC is running WINS. I
want to make my 2nd DC a WINS backup server. How do I do this? Is it just a
matter of installing WINS on the 2nd DC?

Is WINS even needed on W2K? All my clients are W2K SP4 or WinXP Pro SP2.

TIA,

-Tom

 

[Scott Harding]

I wouldn't worry about a backup wins server, there really is no such thing.
It would be an additional WINS server and would use push/pull replication to
sync. Most likely you have no need for an additional WINS server and your
clients are not using WINS first anyways. Typically you'll only need WINS
for some apps or services that may be running on your network. I personally
would not add a 2nd but I would just keep the first one running.

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

what you need to do is adding another WINS as replication partner. this step by step adding wins replication partner may help,

Configure WINS

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
I currently have a Native W2K Server domain, my main DC is running WINS. I
want to make my 2nd DC a WINS backup server. How do I do this? Is it just a
matter of installing WINS on the 2nd DC?

Is WINS even needed on W2K? All my clients are W2K SP4 or WinXP Pro SP2.

TIA,

-Tom

 

[Tom Rogers]

Thanx for the advice. As a test, to see if my network needed WINS at all or
not, I shutdown the WINS service and removed the WINS IP from DHCP and my
server static IPs. I had numerous failures, some with printing, most with
VPN and terminal services.

Now I have AD integrated DNS (2 servers) but it seems when I disable WINS, I
can only ping and connect to servers and shares by IP addr, not NetBIOS
names. Is there something wrong on my network with DNS?

TIA,

-Tom

 

[Tom Rogers]

I think if I disable WINS server, I need to set the "Disable NetBIOS over
TCP/IP" on all nodes for it to work properly.

Is there a way to do this across the network automatically - via Group
Policies or something else, or do I have to visit all PCs?

TIA,

-Tom

 

[Richard G. Harper]

DNS (Domain Naming Service) is used to resolve FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain
Names). If you ping, for example, SERVERNAME, you'll attempt to resolve the
name with WINS, NetBIOS, etc. But if you instead ping
SERVERNAME.DOMAINNAME.LOCAL (or COM, or whatever) you will use DNS to
resolve names.

You should not be having problems pinging PCs without WINS - one of your
domain controllers should be a Master Browser and should be providing
NetBIOS name resolution. If the network isn't, then you have a problem and
may want to try some of the troubleshooting articles here:

http://labmice.techtarget.com/networking/browsersrvc.htm

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