wins questions

[stvleaze]

if wins is installed on a windows 2003 server, should i manually enter 127.0.0.1 into my tcpip settings on that server?

also if a pc is set to use the wins server does it stop broadcasting its netbios? if so do people who dont use the wins server, wont be able to connect to the pcs that do use wins using their netbios name?

thanks

 

[ShackDaddy]

No. Do not use the loopback address. Use the IP address of the server. If the server has multiple NICs, you may have some issues, but when you configure WINS or DNS you can set the IP address that it is going to listen on, and that's the IP that you want to put into the WINS field when you configure the IP properties on your server.

If a PC is not configured with a WINS server, it will holler (broadcast) on the local subnet to see if the system it's trying to contact responds. If the PC is configured with WINS, it will first ask the WINS server, and if the WINS server doesn't have the name in its database or doesn't respond, then the client will holler its request. If a client isn't configured with WINS, then even WINS clients will ultimately have to holler to find it, since the unregistered PC's name won't be in the WINS database.

People who don't use WINS, will end up broadcasting to get information about resources. And they might not be able to reach clients/servers on other subnets, since their broadcasts won't cross routers.

ShackDaddy
Shackelford Consulting

 

[stvleaze]

Will clients that have wins enabled respond to the broadcast requests? Or do they ignore them.

 

[ShackDaddy]

They will respond to them, but not with a broadcast. They will respond directly to the broadcaster.

ShackDaddy
Shackelford Consulting