Hi,
I have an Active Directory domain with a NT4 BDC. I recently installed WINS on my 2000 Server and since then I can't open usrmgr and srvmgr on the NT4 server with error "The network path was not found". The NT4 server has the 2000 server as its WINS server. WINS is not running on the NT4 server.

I am pretty sure that this is related to WINS. The domain WINS record points to the 2000 server. I can ping the NT4 server from any workstation and have no ping problems. What should I do, I think it must be associated with one of the WINS records. Can anyone help?

Chris

I don't believe usrmgr and srvmgr on NT work after you are in mixed mode. In fact that really isn't a BDC anymore. If you isolate it and try to promote it you will get a error saying it can't.

Use AD to admin your network.

Thanks for your reply Wanderer,

We normally use AD to administer the network but I've noticed that since WINS was installed we have been getting a lot of NETLOGON error 5719 coming up on the NT4 server "No Windows NT Domain Controller is available for domain MAUDE- RPC service is unavailable". This makes administering file security and mapping drives troublesome.

Historically we've always had the ability to administer the domain using usrmgr and srvmgr.

Chris

Interesting. I have seen Wins auto entries not be what they should be. I manually entered all of our servers in and have not had any more issues with Wins. Except that I never have figured out why I don't have 100% resolution.

Hi,

I've managed to resolve this one. I've set the NT4 BDC to point to itself as the primary and secondary WINS server. this has worked even though WINS isn't installed on this server....

Thanks for your help wanderer, see you on the tracks

Chris