Re: WINS settings

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:49:12 -0000

DHCP would be the easiest way as you can set the NetBT options there. I'm
shocked you're not using DHCP -you've either got a very small environment,
very old, legacy environment, or your boss is an ass <g>

You could simply disable the NetBT Helper Service via the method Des
suggested -that'll pretty much disable NetBT.

Might I ask why though? There's still a hell of a lot of things that depend
on NetBT. You can force you're NT5.x boxes to only use SMB over TCP/IP
instead of disabling NetBT altogether... 

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Paul Williams
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"Allison" <no@email.com> wrote in message 
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I am using Group Policy and I am not using DHCP.  So what you are saying is
that the 'netsh' command can remove WINS entries for all of my workstations?
"Desmond Lee" <mcp@donotspamplease.mars> wrote in message
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>
> Do you have Group Policy in your Win 2000 (AD) environment?
>
> If yes, fire up a GP at the domain level and disable services of your
> choice.
> Otherwise, you can use the "netsh" command or REG files to achieve the
> same objectives (via computer startup script for example).
>
>
> "Allison" wrote:
>
>> I have several Windows 2000 and Windows XP workstations in my domain.  I
>> want to stop using WINS and disable NETBIOS on our servers and
>> workstations.
>> Is there a way to do this without having to visit each machine?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>>

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