WINS Architecture and Capacity Planning White Paper Available

ID: Q239950

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

SUMMARY

A white paper describing Microsoft's implementation of the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) is available for you to download from the Microsoft Windows NT FTP site.

MORE INFORMATION

WINS provides dynamic NetBIOS-name-to-IP-address registration and resolution. This white paper describes the Microsoft WINS technology, including a functional description of the WINS server, and discusses name registration, resolution processes, replication between WINS servers, the WINS database schema, capacity planning, and designing a WINS infrastructure.

Sections of the document include:

Functional description

Timers

Replication

New features in Windows NT 4.0

Description of the WINS Database

Designing a WINS infrastructure

This white paper is available from the following Microsoft FTP site:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-docs/papers/WINSWP.doc

Additional query words:

Keywords : NTSrv
Version : winnt:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo