How do you remove old WINS entries?

[ray]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain (More info?)

This is driving us crazy. Our WINS database shows servers that haven't been
in existence in three years. These servers show entries that expired years
ago. We've tried deleting the entries and deleting the owner, we've tried
tombstoning the entries and then deleting the owners, we've scavenged each
time and the darn servers and entries keep coming back immediately!

We have a master server and it has push/pull with all of the other ones.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ray

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain (More info?)

Are they coming from the replication partners? You could delete the database
completely and have it rebuild. WINS is dynamic so it should rebuild the
correct entries within a few hours. In order to do this you must stop the
WINS service, go into winnt\system32\wins and delete the entire contents of
this folder. (You could just move the contents in case you want to put it
back.)

--
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server

"Ray" <reply_in@newsgroup.only> wrote in message
news:O1fPu7%23TEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> This is driving us crazy. Our WINS database shows servers that haven't
been
> in existence in three years. These servers show entries that expired years
> ago. We've tried deleting the entries and deleting the owner, we've tried
> tombstoning the entries and then deleting the owners, we've scavenged each
> time and the darn servers and entries keep coming back immediately!
>
> We have a master server and it has push/pull with all of the other ones.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ray
>
>

 

[ray]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.domain (More info?)

How could we tell where they are coming from, Scott?

Ray

"Scott Harding - MS MVP" <scrockel@**NO_SPAM**hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2330qXH$TEHA.3404@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Are they coming from the replication partners? You could delete the
database
> completely and have it rebuild. WINS is dynamic so it should rebuild the
> correct entries within a few hours. In order to do this you must stop the
> WINS service, go into winnt\system32\wins and delete the entire contents
of
> this folder. (You could just move the contents in case you want to put it
> back.)
>
> --
> Scott Harding
> MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
> Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
>
> "Ray" <reply_in@newsgroup.only> wrote in message
> news:O1fPu7%23TEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > This is driving us crazy. Our WINS database shows servers that haven't
> been
> > in existence in three years. These servers show entries that expired
years
> > ago. We've tried deleting the entries and deleting the owner, we've
tried
> > tombstoning the entries and then deleting the owners, we've scavenged
each
> > time and the darn servers and entries keep coming back immediately!
> >
> > We have a master server and it has push/pull with all of the other ones.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ray
> >
> >
>
>