wins will not start

[Robert Chafer]

I have a Windows 2003 Standard Server with Excahnge 2003 and it acts as a
firewall etc. I cannot get it to run wins. It quits with:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\wins>net start wins
The Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) service is starting..
The Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) service could not be started.

A service specific error occurred: 3758096386.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3547.

In the event view I get event ID 4193 which hints:

WINS could not create the notification socket. Make sure the TCP/IP driver
is installed and running properly.

Clearly TCP/IP is installed and running, Exchange is quite happy.

There are some other events before the failure:

The WINS database of name-to-address mappings is empty. It could mean that a
previous invocation of WINS created the database and then went down before
any registration could be done.

The WINS database of owner-to-address mappings is empty. It could mean that
a previous invocation of WINS created the table and then went down before
its own entry could be added. The WINS server went down very fast (even
before all its threads could become fully operational).

These are probably because I deleted the database files in desperation. The
jetcheck utility reports no errors.

Anybody any ideas what could be causing it?

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Robert Chafer

[Arek Iskra [MVP]]

Try to verify that you got Servises file under
%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc folder and that it contains following
entries:

42/tcp name #Host Name Server
42/udp name #Host Name Server

Also, you can check out this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q153740

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Arek Iskra
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server - Management

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[Robert Chafer]

Arek

I had previously read that kb item and discounted it as ... my PC did not
have an etc directory, I just assumed they moved it elsewhere for 2003. I
have created a services file as you suggested and it did not work...so I
copied the files from my xp PC and it now works perfectly. So how could the
etc directory have been deleted (wins did run once).

Thanks for your help Arek.

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[Arek Iskra [MVP]]

You are welcome.

Hmm... I wonder too why this folder has disappeared. But glad you got it
sorted out :)

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Arek Iskra
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server - Management

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Thanks Robert Chafer

the solution, solved my problem.