Hi Metahugh,
Not all name resolution will happen through DNS. Population of the My
Network Places and Computers Near Me are done using NetBIOS still. This can
impact shares and mappings. You'll also have a bunch of broadcast traffic on
your network to maintain the master browser list.
Make sure you set the node type to 0x8 in your DHCP to force the
workstations to try DNS first and if you're running more than one subnet in
your domain, you should probably bring WINS back into the picture. There
isn't a lot of overhead here and pulling the broadcasts off of the net will
do you good.
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Ryan Hanisco
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"" wrote:
> On Jan 22, 11:57 am, metah...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I have a client that has two sites: Their main site and one remote
> > site. The remote site is experiencing slow network performance
> > opening files across the WAN connection. It's a Metro LAN setup
> > utilizing Cisco 1800 series routers and Cisco 3400 ME Series Metro
> > Ethernet switches. The ISP is telling me that part of the problem is
> > there are no WINS servers configured on the DHCP scope installed on
> > the 1800 router at the remote site. I can't see how not configuring a
> > WINS server would cause this problem; name resolution performs
> > properly through DNS. Any possibility that they are correct?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hugh
>
> To add more info here, the server with the file shares is running
> Windows 2003 Appliance edition. SMB signing is turned off.
>
> Hugh
>
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