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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 respond to requests to convert a netbios name to an ip address I have used Sniffer to prove that the requests are getting to the PDC. Having built an NT4 sp1 workstation with
only TCP/IP(If I use the lmhosts file to add the PDC address I can connect to the PDC).

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

I must be missing something but what? Is there a utility that can check that
wins is functioning? because it looks as if it is working but does not respond to out side calls on its serveices (it appears to work if I ping the server name on the PDC itself.

Help!

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by iulian costache

Check the workstations for:
- dhcp enabled stations
- valid netbios names
- working services: dhcp client, wins client, dns client
- in tcp/ip properties uncheck "Enable DNS for name resolution"

Check the server for:
- working services
- valid netbios name
- dhcp configurations: configure the dhcp to assign to clients: ip+netmask, gateway (if applicable), dns server ip, WINS server IP, wins node type
- wins server settings: on wich ip it listens (if pdc is Win2k)

Verify settings on all pcs with ipconfig /all. You should install SP6a (recommended). It could be a problem if you have only sp1.

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