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Windows domain username formats? NETBDOMAIN\USERNAME and DNSDOMAIN.COM\Username?

I'm running into issues with authentication and mapped network drives across a VPN tunnel. Namely error messages related to not being able to find a domain controller. I suspect this is somehow related to WINS, as DNS lookups seem to be working…
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DNS/WINS - having to define when joining to our domain

We have an AD environment all linked together to domain controllers in a datacentre via ipsec tunnels - the DNS appears to work perfectly, they're all set to 127.0.0.1 with forwarding addresses and each DHCP server giving out the correct address.…
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Samba access works with IP address only

I added a Debian etch host (hostname: webserver, IP address: 192.168.101.2) running Samba to a Windows network with a Windows 2003 PDC (IP address 192.168.101.3). The Samba server exports a public guest share, called "Intranet". The server shows up…
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WIN2003 DNS/WINS Decommission

I've been tasked with the decommission of two DNS/Wins servers in on our old site (site02). I am evaluating the servers currently from site01. The office where these servers live is moving to another site. The new site (site03) has DNS servers in…
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how to get netbios or wins traffic across multiple network hops

This network: I have a samba server in the main office LAN. I have multiple satellite offices, 3 hops away. Wins and netbios work fine, using both windows servers and samba servers. Such as: [ main ] -- [office a] [office] [ lan ] -- [office b] I…
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Where is WINS role/feature in Windows 2012

I just added a Windows 2012 server to my domain (decomisioning an old Win2003 DC). I added DHCP and DNS roles no problem, but I cannot find WINS When I look at services I see WINS is already running. Strange...why?
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Remotely find wins addresses

I am needing the WINS addresses for about 150 machines or so. Some users are logged onto desktops and I would rather be able to check this information remotely than having to go look at their machine. In short, is there a way to check what entries…
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Can't reach Win 2k3 server by name on first attempt

I'm not an admin but since our regular guy is on vacation, the problem ended up in my lap. I'll be as brief as I can. We noticed that our SQL Server 2005 instance was acting weird: app starts, app fails to connect to db. However, app works just fine…
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Windows Network Browsing Across Subnets, without AD

Of the 40+ desktop machines we have, about 5 are Windows 7 boxes, the rest Fedora. So we aren't running AD, and we don't want to. We do have Samba deployed (on a CentOS box), configured as a WINS server. Wired network is one VLAN (and subnet),…
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Windows 7 Event 431, NetBT every computer name on network (Mulitpule)

A user's Windows 7 laptop is throwing Event 4321, NetBT errors every two minutes. It is trying to register every DNS name on the network to its own interface. While there is a lot of discussion on single instances of this I have never seen it do it…
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will name resolution fail if WINS server falls down?

I have a pfsense firewall in my house, with a PPTP vpn set up for external access. Without a WINS server, name resolution does not work over the VPN. I have another old box I am thinking of installing samba with WINS on to get around this. My…
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Windows Server 2008 Stnd - Wins Issue Possibly?

Currently we have a freshly setup Windows Server 2008 server acting as DNS and AD,Print and File server. I setup VPN and routing services and was able to successfully connect through VPN however I can't resolve any host using NETBios names. Only…
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windows server 2012 r2 change node type

I'd like to force a station to be Node Type p-mode instead of hybrid. In regedit: cptr\HLMCurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters I don't find the node mode. The goal is to remove UDP port 138 packets sent by each node to the broadcast domain…
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How to have a Windows-PC registers it's name on dns server automatically

If I'm correct (please correct me if I'm wrong), a Windows-PC's name on a local network is not published via DNS but via WINS. Now let's assume I have a network with Windows workstations and I'm going to setup a Linux server for DHCP to be…
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Reply ACK DHCP issue when requesting type 81 reply

On a multiple Vlan network I have two Vlans that are in my domain group. One is funcitoning fine while the other is not. If I place any client in the group that is not to accept BOOTP lease it works fine it is something to do with the request and…
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