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  1. December 8th, 2003, 05:52 PM #1
    Carlitos_Way
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    Enabling WINS through the registry

    How can one enable WINS through the registry in Win98SE?
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  2. December 9th, 2003, 05:22 AM #2
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    1. You enable WINS through control panel>Network>TCP/IP>Properties.
    2. Select WINS Configuration from the TCP/IP window
    3. Make sure the Use DHCP for WINS Resolution box is checked.
    4. Click OK, and reboot the machine.
    What are you doing with WinS. Home networking, internet connection sharing?
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    Unless you have a big network (20+ computers), WINS is useless. Configure as ebonyjones said. WINS is an adapter-specific property and it's going to be tough to change it through registry, since adapters might not be enumerated in the same order on 2 machines.
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  4. December 9th, 2003, 07:02 PM #4
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    Thanks for the responses but it looks like we won't be enabling WINS afterall. I convinced the boss we don't need it. Thanks again.
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  5. December 10th, 2003, 09:03 AM #5
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    Hiya,

    I realise that you are not going to use WINS anymore, but i just thought i'd reply

    I managed to change our WINS server addresses via the existing logon scripts. I used this to change the WINS addresses on roughly 150 PC's spread over 22 offices. They run Win95 (yes, very old PC's, the fastest ones are using a P2 350Mhz cpu) which is enough for what they actually need to do.

    At the end of the logon scripts we called a batch file with a single line in it:
    Code:
    regedit /s \\wins1\regini\setwins.reg
    The .reg file was as follows:
    Code:
    REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VXD\MSTCP]
"EnableDNS"="0"
"LMHostFile"="c:\\windows\\lmhosts"
"NameServer1"="10.86.137.2"
"NameServer2"="10.86.140.2"
"NodeType"="8"
"ScopeID"=""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VXD\MSTCP\Parameters\Winsock]
"HelperDllName"="%windir%\\system\\wsock32.dll"
"MaxSockAddrLength"=hex:10,00,00,00
"MinSockAddrLength"=hex:10,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VXD\MSTCP\ServiceProvider]
"Class"=hex:08,00,00,00
"DnsPriority"=hex:D0,07,00,00
"HostsPriority"=hex:F4,01,00,00
"LocalPriority"=hex:F3,01,00,00
"NetbtPriority"=hex:D1,07,00,00
"ProviderPath"="%windir%\\system\\wsock32.dll"
    The only value i changed was the two "nameserver" entries.

    This worked fine for me, I'm not 100% certain that this would work with Win98/SE, but just wanted to post it incase you do have to introduce WINS.

    PS. Preview shows a gap in the middles of "Services" in the registry key lines. Please ignore the gap
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