View properties for a selected WINS record

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 8 Beta

To view properties for a selected WINS record

  1. Open WINS.

  2. In the console tree, click Active Registrations.

    Where?

    • WINS/applicable WINS server/Active Registrations

  3. On the Action menu, click Display records.

  4. To display records in the details pane, perform one of the following actions:

    • To find a record by NetBIOS name, select the Filter records matching this Name pattern check box, type the leading characters for the name or names that you want to view, and then click Find Now.

    • To find a record by IP address, select the Filter records matching this IP address check box, type the IP address, and then click Find Now.

    • To find a record by owner, click the Record Owners tab. In the Display records for these owners list, select the check box for any of the name record owners that you want included in filtered viewing of the WINS database, clear the check box for any name record owners you want excluded from filtered viewing of the WINS database, and then click Find Now.

  5. In the details pane, click the record that you want to view.

  6. On the Action menu, click Properties.

Notes

  • To open WINS, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click WINS.

  • By default, in the Display Records dialog box, all NetBIOS name record owners are selected on the Record Owners tab, and all NetBIOS name suffix record types are selected on the Record Types tab. If you have a large network or a large number of WINS servers, running a query without refining these selections could cause degradation of network performance due to the large data load transfer.

  • You must select at least one record owner and at least one record type in order for the search operation to successfully return one or more name records.

  • If you select the Enable result caching check box, the search results will be downloaded from the WINS server and stored in local random access memory (RAM). Because search results are stored in RAM, subsequent record searches on this name pattern will be faster. If a large number of records are returned, however, caching of records might take a long time and could adversely affect overall network performance.

Information about functional differences

  • Your server might function differently based on the version and edition of the operating system that is installed, your account permissions, and your menu settings. For more information, see Viewing Help on the Web.

See Also

Concepts

Search for names that begin with a specified set of characters
Show all records in the WINS database
Filter the WINS database view
Clear all WINS data filters
Add, modify, or remove a filter type
Finding and viewing WINS records