WINS not working on 98/Me client

I have a client network with a mixture of Windows
98/Me/2K/XP clients connecting to a Windows 2000 domain
controller.
All machines are configured to use DHCP to provide the
address of the WINS server on the network.
The WINS server is also the domain controller, DHCP
server and DNS server.
All Windows XP/2000 clients can resolve host names
correctly in approximately 1 second.
However the Windows 98/Me machines take more than 30
seconds to resolve host names to IP addresses.
However, if I manually configure the TCP/IP settings on a
98/Me machine NOT to use WINS, then the host names are
resolved very quickly.
I am completely stumped as it seems that these
workstations should work properly.
Does anyone have any idea about what could be causing
these workstations to take so long to resolve the host
names?
Thanks in advance,
Ross

> However the Windows 98/Me machines take more than 30
> seconds to resolve host names to IP addresses.
> However, if I manually configure the TCP/IP settings on a
> 98/Me machine NOT to use WINS, then the host names are
> resolved very quickly.

That implies some type of timeout, or something, on a wrongly
addressed WINS server (configuration).

Does the client (IPConfig or the W9x equivalent WinIPCfg)
show the correct (and double check by ping etc.) address of
the WINS server?

What happens if the client is manually configured to that WINS
server?

Have you checked the WINS server to ensure all the expect entries
are included?

You do have all the servers, especially the WINS Server (itself a DC)
as CLIENTS of the WINS server, don't you?

Many people forget to make the servers, including WINS server, a
WINS client and therefore no registration happens causing the clients
to be unable to resolve that server.

Servers are name resolution (DNS, WINS) CLIENTS too.
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Herb Martin