Conference decwet::windows-nt

5787.0. "WINS configuration in WAN" by NETRIX::"[email protected]" (Dorthe Stang) Sun Mar 09 1997 13:04

Hi!

I need some advice on WINS configuration..

My customer has 1 head office in Oslo, with a F/R connection to 
13 offices spread around the country.

These 13 offices serve from 1 to 5 small offices (1-5 persons), and
the connection to these offices will probably be ISDN (64)

All routers are CISCO.

We are now designing their NT environment, and plan to use 1 NT domain
for the company. The PDC will be in Oslo, each big office will have a
BDC, and hopefully also the small offices..(today these small offices
use one of the users PC as a PC server, file/print etc.)

All clients are Windows 95 with TCP/IP.
They do not want to use DHCP, but keep their static adresses.


1.
Documentation say that only routers, servers etc. should be registered
as static adresses in Wins.
It looks like a waste of bandwith to me that each client should connect to the
WINS server each morning and register the same name and number each time...?

How can I configure a solution which makes as little network traffic
as possible (since the small offices will be connected by ISDN), and
of course as little administration as possible ;-)

2. 
If there will not be a Wins server on a small office, I would like 
to configure these clients as M nodes (use broadcast first, then Wins),
so that local name resolutions does not affect the WAN connection.
I have tried to find out where to change the default H node to M node,
and I think the only place to do this, is in the registry. I do not
remember the path right now, but I'm sure it is a DHCP parameter.
Can I make a client become M-node without using DHCP?

Thanks for any good advice!
Dorthe
NSIS Norway
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