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It appears there's no WINS server on our company network currently and I would like to set one up, but that's if its reasonable to do so. There's a Windows 2003 server as a domain controller and a second 2003 server as a BDC. Planning to put the WINS server role on the domain controller and setup the BDC as a secondary WINS server. Your thoughts on risks, whether and how this should be done is of utmost importance.<br />
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We map a few shared drives using the server name, such as &quot;name&quot; in &quot;name.domain.com&quot;. Our Goldmine CRM shared drive is mapped that way. Lately however, Goldmine started hanging on client machines and I had to make on entry for the server name, in the client PC's hosts file to resolve that.
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It appears there's no WINS server on our company network currently and I would like to set one up, but that's if its reasonable to do so. There's a Windows 2003 server as a domain controller and a second 2003 server as a BDC. Planning to put the WINS server role on the domain controller and setup the BDC as a secondary WINS server. Your thoughts on risks, whether and how this should be done is of utmost importance.

We map a few shared drives using the server name, such as "name" in "name.domain.com". Our Goldmine CRM shared drive is mapped that way. Lately however, Goldmine started hanging on client machines and I had to make on entry for the server name, in the client PC's hosts file to resolve that.

To setup WINS Server

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Networking software modules are interfaced with a framework implemented on the machine's operating system that implements the networking functionality of the operating system. The best known frameworks are the TCP/IP model and the OSI model. Systems typically do not use a single protocol to handle a transmission. Instead they use a set of cooperating protocols, sometimes called a protocol family or protocol suite.[9] Some of the best known protocol suites include: IPX/SPX, X.25, AX.25, AppleTalk and TCP/IP. Other protocols indirectly related to networking include the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and its related technologies, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name Server (DNS) and other Internet protocols.