rs

Hello,

We are migrating our enterprise to Win 2K3 from NT. We
are forced to keep our WINS server for a variety of
reasons.

I have been testing WINS in our lab and found that it is
not creating [1Bh] records when importing records from an
LMHOST file. Importing the same file into a windows 2000
and NT WINS database does create the [1Bh] record, so the
formatting is correct (unless the formatting is different
for 2003).

We need the 1B records as we will be mainting several NT
trusts.

I have been unable to find anything on this. Is this an
issue with 2003? Any suggestions (getting rid of NT
and/or WINS is not an option)?

Thanks!

michael giorgio - ms mvp

The lmhosts file does contain the following entry:?
***.***.***.x "domainname \0x1B" #PRE

If so you have to be absolutely sure the \ is the six****th
character in the domain name for the 1b entry to be
populated.

rs

Yep. I am absolutely sure. I have counted it about a
dozen times between pulling my hair out.

six****th

michael giorgio - ms mvp

Have you tried manually addinig the static mapping into the
WINS database?

rs

I am not sure how to manually add a 1Bh record other than
to importing via LMHOST file.


the

bill grant

It's not easy. They give you an option for the <1C> entry but not <1B>
.. You can do it using netsh. (Messy but it works).