We have had similar issues in the past with our NT4 WINS servers. We are running hub and spoke with our Hub in Atlanta and spokes in 4 cities (5 WINS servers total). If what your are saying is true, would you and Rodger just deploy primary and backup WINS server in your hub office, and then have all the field PC's/Servers at the remote offices register WINS with the two central servers?
I was under (the hopefully incorrect) idea that you needed WINS servers for each of your subnets that have BDC's on them. If I could migrate to a central pair, that would be great from an administrative point, and would likely make name resolution smoother with new clean WINS DB's. I too look forward to the end of this year when our Active Directory deployment with be complete and we can turn off NETBIOS and just use DNS. Miles -----Original Message----- From: Weatherly, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:16 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Name resolution quiz I would agree with that 2 maybe 3 WINS server should be enough You should also look at setting them up in a hub-n-spoke topology instead of a mesh topology to help make management a bit easier. This way if you have to maintain static entries (which ARE rare), you can manage them on one central server and let WINS replicate them to the other servers. -------------------------------- Rob Weatherly -------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:09 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Name resolution quiz Sounds like you have between 11 and 12 too many WINS servers. Which also explains why stuff isn't working. Please tell me you're at least running a hub and spoke model and not a complete mess replication topology. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Lum, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:03 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Name resolution quiz > > > 14 WINS servers, all push/pull partners (and what does "other" in WINS > manager mean?). Ken this is great info as corporate had just told me > the same thing Andrew did. > > Dave. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Coughlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:55 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Name resolution quiz > > > You should have a static entry for Servers and other systems > which have a > static IP and don't get rebooted frequently. The alternative > is to run > "nbtstat -RR" every few days, otherwise the WINS server > releases the entry. > > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:50 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: Name resolution quiz > > > You should not have to add static entries for Windows systems. > > How are your WINS servers configured and how many do you have? > > > > ASB > http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lum, David > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:40 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: Name resolution quiz > > > Time to show more of my ignorance. > > PROBLEM: > a) DOMAIN1 DC gets event ID 5719 "No NT domain controller is available > for domain DOMAIN2..." > > b) Using Server Manager to look at DOMAIN2 tells me I get read only > because it can't find the PDC of DOMAIN2 > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
