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by psible

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We are running NT 4.0 and have two Win Servers on two domains, databases are different. One Win Server didn't update and tombstone the right way, but still have the machine as active but the date has expried. "The machine in question is the other machine's PDC" Thus, anyone loginng to that domain can not authenicate. Is there a program that we can use to edit the Wins database. FYI, the backup is also corrupt.

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by turambar386

There's a user-hostile program called WINSCL included in the NT resource kit that may be able to help. However, using it is about as much fun as pulling off your toenails with plyers.

Wins Manager will let you edit the database to some extent, but in the end you may have to totally delete the corrupt database and start over.

Good luck.

by joseph moore

First, try to compact the WINS database. To do that, use JETPACK.EXE which comes with NT server.
Stop the WINS service.
From the command line go to %windir%\system32\wins and type in:
JETPACK DHCP.MDB TMP.MDB
Then, start the WINS service back up. See if that took care of it.
If not, and if you really have to recreate the WINS database (if it is really toast), then you can do it this way:
Open WINS Manager
Click Stop Replication Partners in WINS Manager
Archive or delete the files in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Wins folder but do not delete the folder
Restart the WINS server. Windows NT automatically recreates the files and registers the services that the WINS server uses
WINS clients in the environment then need to be restarted in order to register their services with the WINS database.

That came from Technet article Q205100. Here is the URL:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q205100
(please remove any spaces)

Hope this helps.

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