WINS Service not loading

[Steve]

Hi all,
When I start the WINS service I am getting the following
error message:

'COULD NOT START THE WINDOWS INTERNET NAME SERVICE (WINS)
ON THE LOCAL COMPUTER'
ERROR 3758096386:

The OS is 2000 ADV Server.

Can anyone help

Thanks

 

[David Brandt [MSFT]]

Have any restores been done to the machine, or this database moved from an
NT4 machine etc?
Any changes to the perms of the service or the drivers/etc dir?
The wins database could be corrupted, but also see if the following are in
the services file;
42/tcp name #Host Name Server nameserver
42/udp name #Host Name Server

Are wins error are you seeing in the event log?
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Microsoft Corporation

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[Joe Richards [MVP]]

That error translates to error 2 - The system cannot find the file
specified.

In your shoes I would move the files in c:\winnt\system32\wins to another
folder and then try to restart WINS. Those files are the database files and
doing that tells WINS to create a new database. It is a quick check to see
if you have something bad in the database or something somewhere else. If it
works, you can try to jetpack the database to bring it back to life or if
you have a smaller environment, run NBTSTAT -RR on the servers that need to
be registered and they will reregister themselves and everything else can
slowly reregister themselves as you go on.