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by shanghai sam

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Ok...I have been asked to do away with WINS and use DDNS only. I'm not sure this is possible with the existing forest/domain structure.

We have a root domain of mydomain.com with a DDNS server. We then have 2 subdomains corp1.mydomain.com and corp2.mydomain.com sperated by a WAN. The corp1 uses the root DDNS and the corp2 uses DDNS on it's own DC level.

I shutdown WINS and now we are having all sorts of cross domain resolution problems. I can't see the corp1 domain in the computer browserand we have to fully qualify DNS names to map drives...can't use UNC naming.

I have been told that you break DDNS if you implement with the about subdomain method. I have also been told and read that for multi-domain structure, you can't totally get away from WINS.

I know that was a mouth full, but does anyone have any experience with this or input?

Thanks

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by pan 13 x

if you are running winnt 4.0 or win98 computers anywhere on the network these computers will have problems . UNtil you are running only win2k or better will wil have to run both actually. DDNS does not support lower operating systems

by curlergirl

I have not worked directly with this complex a structure, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work if DNS was set up properly. However, as stated in the previous answer, you need to retain WINS for the workstations to be able to resolve names properly unless they are all Win2K or better. NT 4.0 or Win9x/Me will still need WINS name resolution. Furthermore, they will not automatically register themselves in DDNS, even if you check all the right check boxes - at least this is my experience. So, if you have NT or Win9x boxes that need to share resources, other workstations (even Win2K ones) may need to use WINS to find them, unless you want to get very undynamic (i.e., hands-on) with your supposedly "dynamic" DNS server. Hope this helps!

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