Q239950: WINS Architecture and Capacity Planning White Paper Available

Article: Q239950
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Version(s): winnt:4.0
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Last Modified: 08-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 
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A white paper describing Microsoft's implementation of the Windows Internet
Naming Service (WINS) is available for you to download from the Microsoft
Windows NT FTP site.

MORE INFORMATION
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WINS provides dynamic NetBIOS-name-to-IP-address registration and resolution.
This white paper describes the Microsoft WINS technology, including a functional
description of the WINS server, and discusses name registration, resolution
processes, replication between WINS servers, the WINS database schema, capacity
planning, and designing a WINS infrastructure.

Sections of the document include:

- Functional description

- Timers

- Replication

- New features in Windows NT 4.0

- Description of the WINS Database

- Designing a WINS infrastructure

This white paper is available from the following Microsoft FTP site:

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-docs/papers/WINSWP.doc

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Technology        : kbWinNTsearch kbWinNT400search kbWinNTSsearch kbWinNTS400search kbWinNTS400
Version           : winnt:4.0
Hardware          : ALPHA x86
Issue type        : kbinfo

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