Re: WINS Server

DNS (Domain Naming Service) is used to resolve FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain
Names). If you ping, for example, SERVERNAME, you'll attempt to resolve the
name with WINS, NetBIOS, etc. But if you instead ping
SERVERNAME.DOMAINNAME.LOCAL (or COM, or whatever) you will use DNS to
resolve names.

You should not be having problems pinging PCs without WINS - one of your
domain controllers should be a Master Browser and should be providing
NetBIOS name resolution. If the network isn't, then you have a problem and
may want to try some of the troubleshooting articles here:

http://labmice.techtarget.com/networking/browsersrvc.htm

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"Tom Rogers" <jeditom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OfacwTrlFHA.1372@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanx for the advice. As a test, to see if my network needed WINS at all
> or not, I shutdown the WINS service and removed the WINS IP from DHCP and
> my server static IPs. I had numerous failures, some with printing, most
> with VPN and terminal services.
>
> Now I have AD integrated DNS (2 servers) but it seems when I disable WINS,
> I can only ping and connect to servers and shares by IP addr, not NetBIOS
> names. Is there something wrong on my network with DNS?


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