Much as I would like to see it go away too, I think there are still too
many applications that require it. I'm not a programmer, so may be stating
this wrong, but I believe a lot of apps. still use the NetBIOS API calls for
name resolution, and so would fail without some type of NBNS on a routed
network. Outlook/Exchange even fall into this, right?
-DaveC
Reuters
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Jessop
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [spam] [ActiveDir] Living without WINS
We have a AD structure with the following setup.
DCs and servers W2K3 AND W2K.
PCs NT4, W2K and XP.
Name Resolutions
DNS Server (with WINS lookup)
WINS
All clients have DNS name resolution activated.
Some (older clients have both WINS and DNS)
Most NT 4.0 clients have AD client.
Obviously the NT 4.0 client do not ddns.
We also have 2 clusters with Windows 2000.
My question is the following.
If I create static DNS records for the NT4 clients, can I do without WINS? What pitfalls and issues are there?
Thanks (in advance) for your help.
Peter Jessop
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