The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P74:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 696 Chapter 20 Planning Implementing and Maintaining a Name Resolution Strategy Interoperability with WINS In a mixed environment that includes downlevel clients such as Windows NT 4 and Windows 95 you must continue to support NetBIOS name primary mechanism for supporting NetBIOS name resolution in a segmented network is through WINS which allows clients on different subnets to register and resolve NetBIOS computer names on WINS servers. In some situations it might be necessary for UNIX clients which do not support NetBIOS to connect to Windows NT 4 computers. In order to resolve the Windows NT 4 computer names the UNIX hosts must use DNS. However if the Windows NT 4 server is configured with a static IP address it will not be able to dynamically register its host name and IP address in DNS. One way to support DNS resolution for NetBIOS computer names is to integrate WINS with DNS through WINS forward and reverse lookup records. When a DNS zone is configured with WINS forward or reverse lookup records it will consult a WINS server to resolve host names for records that are not present in its zone data. As a result of this integration with WINS and DNS it is not necessary for the DNS administrator to manually update the DNS zones with A records for NetBIOS computers that are incapable of updating DNS data on their configuration of WINS forward and reverse lookup records is performed on a per-zone basis. To configure WINS lookup records go to the forward or reverse lookup zone for which you wish to configure WINS integration go to the property pages for the zone and click the WINS tab. Figure shows the WINS tab property pages. Figure WINS tab for a DNS Forward Zone Showing Advanced Configuration Options There are a few things to note about the configuration shown in Figure The two WINS servers are specified to improve fault tolerance in the event that the first WINS server does not have the record or is unreachable. Planning .
