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by does not compute!

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Can anyone advise or point me to a good information source for the following
problem:-

I have installed DHCP, DNS and Wins on a PDC but cannot get the wins server to
convert a netbios name to an ip address. Having built an NT4 sp1 workstationwith
only TCP/IP(I have avoided using the lmhosts file to add the PDC address).

The DHCP service works (ie I have an IP address and the ip addresses for wins and
DNS appear - ipconfig /all) but when I enter ping this fails if I
ping 10.1.1.1 (ip address of Server) this works

I must be missing something but what ? Is there a utility that can check that
wins is functioning ?

Help!

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by buzz70_98

First thing that you should try is putting the ip address of WINS staticly on the workstation. If that works, then the problem might be that the lease has expired on the workstation. You might need to ipconfig /release and then reboot the machine. Do not renew right away. Do that first and let me know.

by sv_kaven

have checked the A record in DNS?

you should be able to ping the client without wins, because obviously your PTR worked fine.

troubleshoot with nslookup

sven

by rcc

Hi
Run WINS Manager (Administrative Tools) and look at the database. If your workstation's name is in there, your wins works.
What happens if you try pinging the workstation's name from the server?
Microsoft has a good collection of articles on WINS troubleshooting. Try www.microsoft/technet and search for WINS Troubleshooting.

Regards,
Radu

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