WINS Server config

Hello All,
I am installing a WINS server on a new dc/dns server.
I am reading the posts here from others as the group rules seem to push, but
I am not having luck. I am working on this and trying to figure out about
the Network Card Interface Properties for dns and wins servers as well as my
clients on the LAN.
Some threads seem to point you to enable netbios over tcp/ip but others say
it is to much network traffic and then yet more say you don't need it.
What should I be doing? I believe it is not written here yet so please
explain. I am a native 2000 domain with new 2003 dc's.
I need WINS because I read to many horror stories with people trying to get
rid of it and I don't think it is worth the effort right now.

Thank you all for your help in advance.

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
JakeS <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> Hello All,
> I am installing a WINS server on a new dc/dns server.
> I am reading the posts here from others as the group rules seem to
> push, but I am not having luck. I am working on this and trying to
> figure out about the Network Card Interface Properties for dns and
> wins servers as well as my clients on the LAN.
> Some threads seem to point you to enable netbios over tcp/ip but
> others say it is to much network traffic and then yet more say you
> don't need it. What should I be doing? I believe it is not written here
> yet so
> please explain. I am a native 2000 domain with new 2003 dc's.
> I need WINS because I read to many horror stories with people trying
> to get rid of it and I don't think it is worth the effort right now.
>
> Thank you all for your help in advance.

If you want to browse, you need to a) install WINS and b) enable NetBIOS
over TCP/IP. The WINS server will minimize the chattiness of NetBIOS you'd
otherwise have. If you don't care about browsing, you don't need either.

I have been using WINS since NT4 and have never had any real problems with
it, for what it's worth.

"JakeS" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message...
>Hello All,
>I am installing a WINS server on a new dc/dns server. I am reading the
>posts here from others as the group rules seem to push, but
>I am not having luck. I am working on this and trying to figure out about
>the Network Card Interface Properties for dns and wins servers >as well as
>my clients on the LAN. Some threads seem to point you to enable netbios
>over tcp/ip but others say it is to much network traffic >and then yet more
>say you don't need it. What should I be doing? I believe it is not
>written here yet so please explain. I am a native 2000 >domain with new
>2003 dc's. I need WINS because I read to many horror stories with people
>trying to get rid of it and I don't think it is >worth the effort right
>now. Thank you all for your help in advance.

There are five requirements for browsing across subnets (viewing the
computers in My Network Places) in a multi-subnet environment.

1) PDCe must be present. This domain controller merges the browse list of
all subnets in a multi-subnet environment (collected from Master Browsers)
and sends the compiled list back to the Master Browsers.
3) WINS must be present. The Master Browser of each subnet uses WINS to
locate the PDCe (designated as the 1B name in WINS). It is helpful that all
computers register with the same primary WINS server.
2) Computer Browser service running on at least one machine in each subnet.
This allows that machine to become a Master Browser. You need at least a
Master Browser in each subnet, or no computers will be seen in Network
Places from that subnet. The Master Browser periodically sends a
representative list of all computers running File and Print Sharing for the
subnet off to the PDCe of the domain. All machines wanting to browse
Network Places get the list from their local Master Browser which in turns
gets the domain-wide list from the PDCe. All machines also register their
name with the Master Browser, who as indicated sends this list to the PDCe.
There can also be up to three Backup Browsers per subnet, and these Backup
Browser must also be running the Computer Browser service. Backup Browsers
take load off the Master Browser.
4) File and Print Sharing service running on any machine which wants to
become visible in the browse list for it's subnet in the first place. Note
that File and Print Sharing service automatically enables NetBIOS over
TCP/IP which is required for a machine to register in WINS (assuming that it
is also pointing at a WINS server). This is most important for the PDCe.
5) NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled to support the transport of NetBIOS
information within the TCP/IP packets exchanged between all machines
involved in the steps 1-4. NetBIOS over TCP/IP is required for a machine
to register in WINS (assuming that it is also pointing at a WINS server).
If it is not enabled, the machine will not register with WINS.

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