I see no reason why WINS would be needed in an empty root domain. If you did decide to use WINS in this domain, I see no problem with using the WINS from a child domain.
In our environment, we have three separate AD forests and only one set of WINS servers. Dennis On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:09:24 -0500, Pelle, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know there has been some debate in this group recently about WINS in AD > but I wanted to get your feedback regarding an empty root domain: > > > > Do you need a WINS server in an empty root domain? If so, would pointing > WINS back to the child domain WINS server be a bad idea? Other than AD > traffic nothing should be happening at the root level (other than DNS > forwarding) so I'm not sure I understand why WINS would be needed… We have > Exchange 2003 running (which I realize has somewhat of a dependency on WINS) > but the Exchange server(s) are in the child domain where we have WINS > already running. > > > > Any insight would be greatly appreciated! > > > > Thanks! > > > > Joe Pelle > > Senior Infrastructure Architect > > Information Technology > > Valassis / IT > > 19975 Victor Parkway Livonia, MI 48152 > > Tel 734.591.7324 Fax 734.632.6151 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.valassis.com/ > > > > This message may include proprietary or protected information. If you are > not the intended recipient, please notify me, delete this message, and do > not further communicate the information contained herein without my express > written consent. > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
