We are a regional office running a DHCP server (NT4 , SP4) locally, but obtaining our WINS from servers in two other offices. In total there are three domains (including ours) all with working trust relationships in place.
** We’ve tested the trusts repeatedly and everything is fine – we access our e-mail, internet and server based applications from servers on the other two domains without problem.
We have configured our DHCP server to assign each client site A as our Primary WINS and site B as the Secondary. All clients and servers with static IP addresses are also configured this way.
The problem is that our Windows 2000 and WinXP DHCP clients keep showing that site B is the Primary WINS and A is the secondary when we test theirTCP/IP settings.
We’ve checked and rechecked the settings, deleted and re added the DHCP settings with no success. There are even times when a client will show the correct WINS configuration one day, but the next it is back to showing them incorrectly again.
We’ve wiped the cache on clients, restarted clients and server, released and renewed the IP settings without success.
Whilst the switched around WINS settings do not appear to be causing issues at present, I would like to know why it is happening and how to get the clients to show the correct settings?
