Windows 2000 sever logon trouble

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Hello,

I have a Windows 2000 server acting as a PDC, with DNS and DHCP
installed on it.
There are 12 workstations from which 8 are Windows 98.
The problem is that often those 98-stations cannot logon to the domain,
but after a little while waiting, it will. It gives an error that the
user-name, password could be wrong or that the domain-controller cannot
be found.
I have tried a lot of things like making sure file-and printersharing is
on and used the Microsoft knowledgebase to adjust the LMHOSTS-files on
the workstations.
Also, I don't know if it's necessary, I recently installed WINS on the
server as well, hoping that would make a difference, though no entries
of computers appear in the WINS-config on the server, so it looks like
it's doing nothing.
The other computers on the network are XP-machines, and they don't seem
to have as much trouble, though two days ago, it didn't want to load the
batch-script for file-sharing on one of them (through active dir).
I have found more people having similar problems, though all the
solutions that were given didn't seem to work for me, hope someone can
help me,

Arno
 
Did you enter the address of the WINS server in your DHCP options table so
clients know it's there and use it?

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Thanks for your quick response,

If you mean the WINS/NBNS-options, I have (added the server PDC), also I
added the server address for the DNS-server option and
Nameserver-option. Maybe it's another DHCP-option I need configured?

Thanks,

Arno
 
The WINS server needs to be advertised in DHCP options #044 (and #046 may
need to be changed as well) for clients to know it's there and to use it.

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Thank you very much for your help, I will try this and see if the
workstations are going to be nice to me now...

Arno Mühren
 
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