WINS Service still needed?

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Hello,

I have a network that consists of PCs on multiple networks. I was under
the impression that while transitioning from an NT/W98 domain to a
Windows 2000 domain, I needed to keep my WINS server up to ensure that
all of my hosts can see each other for services. Now that I am finished
transitioning all of my servers and clients to Windows 2000, I want to
turn off WINS. Unfortunately, I don't have a test environment to look
into this issue. If I turn off WINS, will I break any functionality I
already have (ie. browsing to my DC and getting to shares/profiles etc)

Thanks in advance for any help. Please respond back to the newsgroup.

 

[Dave Shaw [MVP]]

You might. If you have any services or applications that require NetBIOS
and they can't resolve names via DNS, you will probably need to keep WINS
around.

-ds

 

[Eric Fleischman [MSFT]]

Dave's right on the money.
Another WINS-dependent thing to add to the list would be trusts with domains
in a different forest. Since they are NTLM-based in W2K NetBIOS would
typically be used to find the 1B/1C across the trust.

~Eric

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Eric Fleischman [MSFT]
Directory Services
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You might. If you have any services or applications that require NetBIOS
and they can't resolve names via DNS, you will probably need to keep WINS
around.

-ds

[ If this is not the correct newsgroup, please let me know ]

Hello,

I have a network that consists of PCs on multiple networks. I was under
the impression that while transitioning from an NT/W98 domain to a
Windows 2000 domain, I needed to keep my WINS server up to ensure that
all of my hosts can see each other for services. Now that I am finished
transitioning all of my servers and clients to Windows 2000, I want to
turn off WINS. Unfortunately, I don't have a test environment to look
into this issue. If I turn off WINS, will I break any functionality I
already have (ie. browsing to my DC and getting to shares/profiles etc)

Thanks in advance for any help. Please respond back to the newsgroup.

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

As Dave and Eric said... Definitely maybe...

Also, if you have a disjoint namespace or multiple domains, you will get to start using FQDN's to reach servers which
tends to break programs and scripts that were hardcoded to short host names.

Note if you only have a couple of domains you could add additional suffixes to your search order on your machines.

--
Joe Richards
www.joeware.net

--

Dave's right on the money.
Another WINS-dependent thing to add to the list would be trusts with domains
in a different forest. Since they are NTLM-based in W2K NetBIOS would
typically be used to find the 1B/1C across the trust.

~Eric

--
Eric Fleischman [MSFT]
Directory Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

You might. If you have any services or applications that require NetBIOS
and they can't resolve names via DNS, you will probably need to keep WINS
around.

-ds

[ If this is not the correct newsgroup, please let me know ]

Hello,

I have a network that consists of PCs on multiple networks. I was under
the impression that while transitioning from an NT/W98 domain to a
Windows 2000 domain, I needed to keep my WINS server up to ensure that
all of my hosts can see each other for services. Now that I am finished
transitioning all of my servers and clients to Windows 2000, I want to
turn off WINS. Unfortunately, I don't have a test environment to look
into this issue. If I turn off WINS, will I break any functionality I
already have (ie. browsing to my DC and getting to shares/profiles etc)

Thanks in advance for any help. Please respond back to the newsgroup.