WINS servers yes or no?...

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I have aan environment with 8-10 XP Pro clients and 2 Server 2003 AD servers
used only for servng files. I also have 2 of the small Hawking IP printer
servers. During long FRS cycles between my 2 AD servers I'm loosing access
to the second (target replica) AD server. I loose network connectivity to it
for no apparent reason when everything seems to work fine prior to losing
connectivity. Of course, once I loose connectivity then FRS fails and so on.

DNS seems to be set-up correctly - I get no warnings or errors until
connectivity fails. I get rpc server unavailable warnings on the target
server and I can't see the server from any other machine. I have not set-up
WINS at all but do I need to? I have no W95/98 2000 or NT clients.

Scott
 
I didn't think I needed WINS in a total XP/2003 environment. Right now I
have a single DNS zone that is AD integrated so that both of my servers have
exactly the same configs. The only problems I'm having are the W32time
warnings from my first AD server (it can't acces the designated server) and
my second server keeps losing it's network connection. If I reboot the
second server it will often start replicating agian but then stop again
after a while when the network connection gets flakey...Scott
 
There are many services in Windows 2000 that still use WINS. Network
Browsing being a big on that people like to use. Most downlevel trust
issues are also related to WINS or LMHosts name resolution. Please install
the Windows 2000 support tools that are included on your Windows 2000
server CD in the support\tools directory and run a netdiag .v to see if
there are nay apparent network connectivity name resolution issues.

You could also run the MPSReports available at teh link below which will
incluse a netdiag and dcdiag and see what errors are apparent.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/b/1/bb139fcb-4aac-4fe5-a579-30b0bd9
15706/MPSRPT_DirSvc.EXE
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/b/1/bb139fcb-4aac-4fe5-a579-30b0bd9
15706/MPSRPT_DirSvc_Readme.txt


Hope this helps!

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