VPN clients not updating WINS database

[pogi05]

With a Windows 2003 AD environment, I have XP clients VPN'ing into our VPN server, but the WINS database is not updating their IP information.

For example, on my test computer I VPN'd in and recieved an IP of XXX.XXX.XX.76. I looked in the WINS database and found that entry. However, the next time I VPN I got a different IP address of XXX.XXX.XX.53, which doesn't show up in WINS, and the old .76 is still there.

Is there any way of getting the newer update to delete the old one? or am I stuck with waiting until the expiration on the refresh interval of WINS knocks the entry out?

Thanks,

Chris

 

[pogi05]

OK found the problem. It was one of two things that I changed. First, I found out that the VPN client inherited WINS server settings from it's VPN server, so I made sure that the VPN server had itself as a WINS server (it is our WINS server).

Second I also enabled Netbios over TCP/IP on the VPN connection settings.

That seemed to do the trick, so now when I VPN in each time the WINS database will be updated with my new IP address.

Chris