Hello,

I have a couple of questions from WINS in a routed environemnt.

What i want to know is how do we get wins to work across subnets?

What i actually do need is a WINS administrator to help me out with a coulpe of things.

LIKE

WINS clients on the same subnet are populating the WINS DB

WINS cleints on other subnets are not populating the WINS DB

How to setup a wins proxy? what computers can be this? XP Pros? or only SERVERs

Do we expect clients going thru the Proxy to populate the WINS DB?

How do we set cleints to look at the WINS proxy?

Pretty much anything and everything on WINS -

Thanks for all the help gentlemen, and ladies - spesh the ladies (wacka wacka) hahaha

In all seriousness, any help is greatly appreciated.

Anthony

What I have done is I had 1 main site with about 10 servers and a remote site with 2 servers.. 1 dc at main location and 1 at remote location

Each site has a Wins Server service installed on the Windows machine and we just ran a pull from each wins server to get the Wins info from the other subnet. Then we pulled the records into DNS using dns management

Most wins servers should have the ability to share their Wins DB.

it seems you already know what you need.. a wins proxy, which works pretty much like a DHCP relay server and will relay (not forward) WINS traffic across non-boradcast and broadcast subnets

http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/2193041

Some info there

Why in this day and age are you using WINS though?

Single label DNS domain AD infrastructure.

I dont see how this forces you to use WINS instead of DNS. Even if you have a flat dns domain name your nodes can still be identified as computername.flatdnsname

advantage of dns is that you can use dns forwarders etc to configure your multiple sites. WINS is a thing of the past... soon... hopefully

yehhhh

ok if anyone has actual experience with a single lable dns label then wed know that netbios resolution is a requirement of dns ad interactions.

thats why, and the use of wins is in addition not instead of dns because as evryone SHOULD know ... ad can not function without dns

Either way.. If you are using DNS. Wins.. single label or not.. should not be necessary unless you are using legacy clients(9x machines)

here is an article from microsoft about domain clients and single label domain names and how to get the clients to work

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300684

one of my clients uses a flat dns domain name. DNS is sufficient