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WINS cutoff from Win2000 server

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by ronmc

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I have a Win2000 Server on a network on a frame relay. In order to connect Win95 computers through a router over the frame to a program on the server, I have set up WINS on them. They work fine for a day, but every night they loose the connection and the pc's have to be rebooted in order to find the directory on the Win2000 server. Can someone tell me how to avoid the loss of connection?

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by cportman

Couple things
First - Make sure that all clients are set to "H" node - do ipconfig/all
Second - You may need to set up a Wins Proxy agent on the far side of your router. A lot of Wins traffic is broadcast related, so it may not cross your router.
Third - you may want to even set up Wins servers at each remote location and then configure the databases to replicate

Good Luck
CP

by ronmc

It turned out that there the computers that were being cut off had the notepad virus on them. After I removed the virus the problem disappeared. Thanks for your help

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