Windows Server 2003 WINS Issue

We upgraded our domain from NT4 to Windows Server 2003 about a year ago. My
understanding is that 2003 uses DNS for name resolution and that I could
turn WINS off. However... when I turn WINS off, the network gets slow and
sluggish, browsing is horrible and general havoc results... what is the
issue? Our domain functional level is Windows 2003 and our forest is
Windows 2003 interim.

Thanks.

Randy

Sounds like a DNS Search Suffix problem. Without WINS, whenever a computer
queries for a NETBIOS name, and in the absence of an LMHosts files, the
computer queries DNS in the order of the DNS Search Suffix Order as defined
under the TCP/IP properties of the first-bound network adapter. This all
assumes that you are in fact pointed at an internal DNS server supporting
your AD domain and not your ISP's DNS server.

--
Todd J Heron, MVP Windows Server - Networking
MCSE - Windows Server 2003/2000/NT; CCA


"Randy Dalton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> We upgraded our domain from NT4 to Windows Server 2003 about a year ago.
> My understanding is that 2003 uses DNS for name resolution and that I
> could turn WINS off. However... when I turn WINS off, the network gets
> slow and sluggish, browsing is horrible and general havoc results... what
> is the issue? Our domain functional level is Windows 2003 and our forest
> is Windows 2003 interim.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Randy
>