This should happen almost immediately as long as the old machine
is not trying to defend the name still.
Run the following command to see who is registered with the WINS
server
nmblookup -U <ip of WINS> -R <workgroup name>#1b
Todd Pfaff wrote:>
> if i have a host with a particular ip address running as a domain master
> browser and registered as such with my wins server, and then i change the
> ip address of this host, does the old registration with the wins server
> eventually go away so that the new ip address can be registered?
>
> if so, how long should this take?
>
> how would one force the old ip address to be forgotten?
>
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> Todd Pfaff <pfaff@mcmaster.ca>
> Projects Manager, Research and High Performance Computing Support
> ABB 132, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M1
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=====================================================================Herb Lewis
Silicon Graphics
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