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DHCP / DNS

We had before WINS in our network, but decided a year ago to shut it down, when we moved to Windows7/Windows2008r2.

Now, in the DHCP-scopes, we still have the "046 WINS/NBT Node Type = 0x8" ....
Is this still necessary, or can we remove these entries as well?

rgrds,
Peter

Lee W, MVP

I would set it 0x1 - see node types here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS

sirois500

You can remove them qith no problem.

After 1 years all you computer respond now to DNS.

Thanks

Chris Dent

Personally I would ignore / remove that option, head to the Microsoft specific options and disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP by setting it to 0x2. It'll have to be manually disabled on your statically configured hosts.

Unless you desparately need it you're better off without NetBIOS.

Chris

HamannWetteren

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If I had WINS and DNS in the network, and the node set to 0x8, how can I now that name resolution uses either WINS or DNS?

HamannWetteren

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to Chris-Dent: setting it ti 0x2 would mean "WINS only"...??

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Chris Dent

Slight edit, 0x2 in the Node Type field (as opposed to the disable option) is P-Node, Point-to-Point. The system will check WINS, and should not use Broadcast.

leew posted the types earlier.

I'm not sure of the behaviour of P-Node if a WINS server is not defined on the client, it may fall back to the default, Hybrid (H-Node, 0x8), and broadcast for the name.

From my point of view these are the choices:

First: Disable NetBIOS completely
Second: Implement WINS and support NetBIOS

I don't like ignoring it, it's a very messy technology. Something you could deal with back when Windows NT was king and you had to use it.

Chris