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by daveg

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Small Windows NT 4.0 network with Citrix 1.8.
I installed WINS and DHCP on the BDC for backup servers. After, when I use ipconfig, the secondary WINS server is the primary and vice versa. What did I do wrong?

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by liquidcoolit

For WINS Servers you must set the Primary WINS in the network configuration to the same address as itself, The secondary must be the other WINS server on the network.

Cheers ....

by izzy01

I'm going to ask the stupid question first. Is the Primary WINS server IP address in the correct place in the WINS properties of the server that you ran ipconfig?

Next question. Where is the primary WINS server located and where is the secondary? Are they on the same subnet? Is the server your connecting on the same subnet as both of the WINS servers or one of them (secondary)?

by daveg

We probably would've got there, but the above answer was the reason.
Thanks

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