I've got to agree with this suggestion. I had a worldwide network with
about 18 WINS servers set up similar to the way you do and never had any
real problem with the WINS. The differences were 1) I used a hub and spoke,
but you can't do that with two sites, 2) Based on a support article I only
did timed pulls, no push (push was configured with a number so high it would
never trigger) and 3) some sites were too small to justify their own WINS
and pointed to one across the WAN without a problem. I did have browsing
problems occasionaly that were always some rogue machine.
hth
-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Bristow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 2:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: End of My Rope with WINS
Well, you said you had no problem with netbios name resolution. So I would
have to say that your problem isn't with your WINS implementation but
perhaps with your Browsers. To browse the network neighborhood the machine
has to be able to determine and query a machine that contains the browse
list, be that the Domain Master Browser or the backup browser for the
segment. This article might be of some assistance. You should be able to
look through the Wins Database to determine which computers are currently
acting as your browsers.
http://support.microsoft.com
Hope that helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Erwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: End of My Rope with WINS
DHCP. I've set 044 WINS/NBNS servers and 046 WINS/NBT Node Type to 0x8.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Bristow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: End of My Rope with WINS
Are your clients set up using DHCP or manually assigned configuration?
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Erwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: End of My Rope with WINS
NT4 Network. I have two buildings, each on their own network connected by
fiber. Pinging with ip address and netbios name between networks is no
problem and searching for computers using netbios names works too. There is
a WINS server on each network configured as push and pull partners of each
other. Each WINS server is its own Primary and Secondary. Browsing with
Network Neighborhood is intermittent. Sometimes Network A sees Network B,
sometimes it can't (and vice versa). I've never had simultaneous browsing. I
have never gotten a WINS error in the event viewer. I do get successful
push/pull entries.
All clients and other domain controllers are set up using their local wins
server as primary and the remote wins server as secondary. Is this OK?
All the required entries seem to be there [1C], [1Eh], [OOh], etc...
I don't know what else to check for, and am close to deleting both databases
and starting over.
Any advice?
Scott
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