Re: WINS needed in 2003?

Thank you for your response.
I've never published shared folders in active directory before. The
instructions in doing so seems to be straight forward but the problem is we
have hundreds of shard folders.
We do have multiple subnets. All our clients are XP or later. So without
WINS and without publishing the shared folders in AD, would we have isseus
because we're not using WINS?


"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

Read inline please.

In news:213A6EBE-2C9A-49D4-A381-5F7147A2CD80@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
study <study@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Is WINS still needed in 2003 domain when there's no MS exchange
server? Drive mapping seems to work without WINS using the flat name
since the DNS suffix will take care of the domain name.
Any of you don't run WINS in your 2003 domain?

The only need for WINS in Active Directory is if you want to browse Network
Places across multiple subnets. If you have only one subnet and no NT4 or 9x
clients there is no real need for WINS. You can get by without WINS even in
multiple subnets if you have only Win2k and later clients and all your
shares are Published in Active Directory because Win2k, XP and Vista clients
can search Active Directory for your published shares.


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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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