Active Directory WINS and DNS

[Don Pandori]

mikenospam72 at hotmail.com wrote:

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>>Hello
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>>We've recently converted an NT4 domain to 2003 AD.  When I say
>>converted, we really created a completely new forest, and just started
>>migrating user machines into the new forest.
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>>When we did the migration of desktops into the new AD forest, we used
>>the Netbios name of the forest "CORP".  When in actuality, the DNS name
>>of the forest is "CORP.COMPANY.LOCAL".
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>>My question is...Now I'm ready to kill my NT4 Wins servers.  Will my
>>clients that are looking at the NETBIOS name, be completely lost until
>>I change each one of them (450) to point to the FQDN?
>>Any help is appreciated.  TIA!
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It may not be that hard actually.  If your clients use DHCP and they are 
a mix of Win2K and WinXP, you can set up search suffixes (synonymous to 
the search parameter in /etc/resolv.conf) for your domains.  Win2K and 
WinXP machines will default to using DNS before they try WINS.

Hope this helps.

Don