Name Resolution and Win98 Clients

What name resolution does SBS2K use? How should Win98
clients be configured for resolve names correctly?

I have just experienced the following at a client with a
mix of win98, 2K and XP clients on a sbs2k network:
The Win98 clients have "suddenly" developed a name
resolution issue. This is seen in Outlook prompting to be
logged and Internet access failures. Not even internal
names would resolve on any of the Win98 clients.
Eventually I configured HOSTS and LMHOSTS files on the
Win98 clients to get them to work correctly and resolve
names. These clients were initially all manually
configured and not done with client setup disks a long
while back. Everything was set as dynamic.

What I did was a work around but I do not believe it
should be how things are done. About 6x pc's needed this
method of configuring. In a larger network this could be
very time consuming.
Surely all should be done automatically.

Please assist with this query.

Thnx

Bob
Fri Apr 30 12:51:47 CDT 2004

Add the sbs2k's internal IP address as the WINS server in the 98's network
configuration.
Cheers,
Bob Genestet
"Gerald" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:69a401c42ed6$29beddb0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> What name resolution does SBS2K use? How should Win98
> clients be configured for resolve names correctly?
>
> I have just experienced the following at a client with a
> mix of win98, 2K and XP clients on a sbs2k network:
> The Win98 clients have "suddenly" developed a name
> resolution issue. This is seen in Outlook prompting to be
> logged and Internet access failures. Not even internal
> names would resolve on any of the Win98 clients.
> Eventually I configured HOSTS and LMHOSTS files on the
> Win98 clients to get them to work correctly and resolve
> names. These clients were initially all manually
> configured and not done with client setup disks a long
> while back. Everything was set as dynamic.
>
> What I did was a work around but I do not believe it
> should be how things are done. About 6x pc's needed this
> method of configuring. In a larger network this could be
> very time consuming.
> Surely all should be done automatically.
>
> Please assist with this query.
>
> Thnx

Marina
Fri Apr 30 13:26:59 CDT 2004

No need to add those hosts files. Check the winipcfg and make sure
everything is pointing to the server-IP. Check the server if it is running
WINS. Check DHCP server, Scope options and check it has 003, 006, 015, 044
and 046 (0x8).
If the server has 2 nics, make sure the bindingorder shows that the internal
nic is on top.
--
Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP

"Gerald" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:69a401c42ed6$29beddb0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> What name resolution does SBS2K use? How should Win98
> clients be configured for resolve names correctly?
>
> I have just experienced the following at a client with a
> mix of win98, 2K and XP clients on a sbs2k network:
> The Win98 clients have "suddenly" developed a name
> resolution issue. This is seen in Outlook prompting to be
> logged and Internet access failures. Not even internal
> names would resolve on any of the Win98 clients.
> Eventually I configured HOSTS and LMHOSTS files on the
> Win98 clients to get them to work correctly and resolve
> names. These clients were initially all manually
> configured and not done with client setup disks a long
> while back. Everything was set as dynamic.
>
> What I did was a work around but I do not believe it
> should be how things are done. About 6x pc's needed this
> method of configuring. In a larger network this could be
> very time consuming.
> Surely all should be done automatically.
>
> Please assist with this query.
>
> Thnx