Questions tagged [wins]
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Computer Name lookup over PPTP VPN
I have a very small company with just 1 server, a Windows Server 2008 R2, serving as an AD DS, DNS, WINS, DHCP, and now RRAS VPN. Not ideal, but it's what I have.
I recently turned on routing and remote access and established VPN access to the…
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h0ckey09
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Is There A Way To Implement WINS-like Functionality Without WINS?
A company 'somecompany' is retiring WINS (Windows Internet Name Server) support. This means that where the IT staff used to be able to type:
ssh somehost
They now have to type:
ssh somehost.somecompany.com
WINS has been deprecated for years. Is…
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Scripting WINS Tombstone Removal
I'm creating a script to remove the tombstoned entries in WINS (required for exchange w/ multi domains). What I'd like to know is if removing those old entries will break anything? Or if there's anything I should look out for?
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How do I set WINS server for OpenVPN running on pfSense?
I have a OpenVPN Server running on pfSense 2.0.3. I can't find an option to add WINS address for VPN connections. I tried going to VPN > OpenVPN > Server > Edit server > Client Settings > NetBIOS Options and enabling it. However I must have…
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WINS Server interfering with DNS?
First of all, many apologies for my lack of knowledge in managing an active directory, but our network is a bit outdated and I don't necessarily have been trained in the field, however I'm the IT. We are running an Active Directory on Windows Small…
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WINS tool missing from netsh
I run up 'netsh' on my Windows XP box, and type
help
One of the options is wins (to change to the 'netsh wins' context).
From the netsh context I can type "wins" and I get into the wins context just fine.
Problem is, from another machine on the…
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WINS is installed under Add/Remove Windows Components, but the service doesn't show up under Services?
On a Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server, the WINS server is installed under Add/Remove Windows Components, but the Windows Internet Naming Service doesn't show up in the Services list.
Do I need to install something else?
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Scott Whitlock
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XP Clients lose WINS registrations
We have a bunch of XP machines that connect to a W2k3 SBS AD server. The server has a few static WINS bindings.
Normally this means the XP machines can go straight to "http://foo/" or whatever.
However, frequently the lookup of 'foo' results in a…
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James Green
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Microsoft Networking - WINS, DHCP, considerations for moving from a flat to routed network
We are moving our network from a flat 192.168.x.x/16 to a routed network to be composed of several /24 subnets and a layer 3 switch.
It is a Windows network, active directory integrated, standard Microsoft stuff. Client machines are Win2k, Win2k3,…
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Jeremy
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Download or view a servers wins database
I am trying to troubleshoot a WINS browsing problem in a Server 2008 AD Forest. I am in one domain and the problem is with a sibling domain. What command can i use to dump or view the WINS database on a particular AD server by name, in a different…
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Best all in one linux based proxy,firewall, dhcp and wins server
I help to run a lan in Sydney.
We have a need for a proxy/gateway solution to allow those pesky games that require internet to work.
I have been doing this with an ISA server and it has worked quite well.
However now i wish to port this over to run…
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Windows 10 hosts ARPing for WINS server in remote network
Our Win10 hosts are located in IP network 172.16.0.0/21.
The (remote) WINS server is located in IP network 192.168.1.0/24.
Running Wireshark on one of the hosts in 172.16.x.x I can see the entire network constantly ARPing for 192.168.1.1 (the WINS…
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Printing with Old Application (Win2000) is Slow
I have a legacy application that I honestly do not know a whole lot about running on Windows 2000. Sometimes printing is slow. It creates a file at a remote location (I will call this location B) and then prints it. In order to create this file,…
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Kyle Brandt
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Can I Setup 2 WINS Servers in the Same Subnet?
I am looking to setup 2 WINS servers in the same subnet to server as replication partners. We have a legacy device that still relies on WINS. I understand that one WINS server is adequate for a network of 10,000 nodes. I figured two servers are…
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WINS server for inter-VLAN NetBIOS resolution
I have two VLANs. Clients are on one VLAN and there are a couple servers (including a file server) on another VLAN. I have L3 routing between the VLANs. Clients can ping the servers' IP addresses and can also (via net use) access SMB shares directly…
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