WINS and NT SIDS

[rspencer]

Hello,

I have been having intermittent problems with clients on my internal LAN losing connectivity to the Internet but still able to access internal servers. I have had a though in the back of my head that the problem most likely has to do with my WINS server which has a high degree of failed queries. Could NT machine SIDS which are identical cause a problem on my network that has nothing to do with WINS? I usually ghost all my new machines coming in and I forgot about using GHOSTWALKER to change their SIDS after the ghost process is done...

Does this make any sense?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Voyager1]

WINS resolution shoudn't have anything to do with the SID. Look at your WINS database - do your clients seem to be registering OK? Also, for your Internet connectivity are you using an external DNS provider (WINS doesn't even come into play for the I-Net)? All clients properly pointed to the default gateway (router/firewall address)?

Just a few thoughts...