WINS Error - 4260 and 4261

Idris · External Since: May 23, 2007 Posts: 8

Hi,
Wondering if anyone can help with this at all. Cross posted to a few places
as sure most people have had experience of WINS here.

I've got 2 WINS servers (very old). On one I keep getting system event
errors all day long which are event id 4260 and 4261. I've googled and
googled but can't find anything that fixes it.

Below are the errors. If anyone could help/offer suggestions i'd greatly
appreciate.

Thanks.

ERROR 4260
WINS got an error while registering replicas. It will not register any more
replicas of this WINS (address is in data section 4th-8th byte; also check
previous log entry) at this time. Please check a previous log entry to
determine the reason for this. If this error persists over time i.e. you
get the same error during subsequent replication with the above partner
WINS, you may want to restore the database from the backup.

ERROR 4261
WINS got an exception while trying to register a group's replica with name
NTDOMAIN* . The replica is owned by WINS with address given below.

*NT domain is substituted for our NT domain name.

jwgoerlich · External Since: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 2

Microsoft Article 176202, How to Troubleshoot WINS Event IDs 4261 and
4262
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176202

Microsoft Article 190506, WINS Replication Problem Events 4262, 4261,
and 1c Replication
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190506

On Jun 21, 11:50 am, "Idris" <i....RemoveThis@iddiinisde.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Wondering if anyone can help with this at all. Cross posted to a few places
> as sure most people have had experience of WINS here.
>
> I've got 2 WINS servers (very old). On one I keep getting system event
> errors all day long which are event id 4260 and 4261. I've googled and
> googled but can't find anything that fixes it.
>
> Below are the errors. If anyone could help/offer suggestions i'd greatly
> appreciate.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ERROR 4260
> WINS got an error while registering replicas. It will not register any more
> replicas of this WINS (address is in data section 4th-8th byte; also check
> previous log entry) at this time. Please check a previous log entry to
> determine the reason for this. If this error persists over time i.e. you
> get the same error during subsequent replication with the above partner
> WINS, you may want to restore the database from the backup.
>
> ERROR 4261
> WINS got an exception while trying to register a group's replica with name
> NTDOMAIN* . The replica is owned by WINS with address given below.
>
> *NT domain is substituted for our NT domain name.

jwgoerlich · External Since: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 2

Interesting. If you have a clean WINS replica on the PDC, you could
conceivably redo WINS on the BDC. Remove it. Reinstall. Re-replicate
the data from the PDC.

J Wolfgang Goerlich

On Jun 21, 12:21 pm, "Idris" <i....DeleteThis@iddiinisde.com> wrote:
> Just to add to this.
> I've tried to follow thishttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/176202and it
> finds no records.
>
> What i do notice though is that the errors are on my BDC only and no errors
> on the PDC (They are my WINS servers).
> It is odd because 4261 shows the PDC as the owing server but some of the
> errors show it was 192.0.0.5 which is not something that exists anywhere in
> our network!?
>
> I'm stumped and need to stop the errors.
>
> Thanks.

Idris · External Since: May 23, 2007 Posts: 8

Just to add to this.
I've tried to follow this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176202 and it
finds no records.

What i do notice though is that the errors are on my BDC only and no errors
on the PDC (They are my WINS servers).
It is odd because 4261 shows the PDC as the owing server but some of the
errors show it was 192.0.0.5 which is not something that exists anywhere in
our network!?

I'm stumped and need to stop the errors.

Thanks.

"Idris" <idris.DeleteThis@iddiinisde.com> wrote in message
news:enZSqvBtHHA.3504@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> Wondering if anyone can help with this at all. Cross posted to a few
> places as sure most people have had experience of WINS here.
>
> I've got 2 WINS servers (very old). On one I keep getting system event
> errors all day long which are event id 4260 and 4261. I've googled and
> googled but can't find anything that fixes it.
>
> Below are the errors. If anyone could help/offer suggestions i'd greatly
> appreciate.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ERROR 4260
> WINS got an error while registering replicas. It will not register any
> more replicas of this WINS (address is in data section 4th-8th byte; also
> check previous log entry) at this time. Please check a previous log
> entry to determine the reason for this. If this error persists over time
> i.e. you get the same error during subsequent replication with the above
> partner WINS, you may want to restore the database from the backup.
>
> ERROR 4261
> WINS got an exception while trying to register a group's replica with name
> NTDOMAIN* . The replica is owned by WINS with address given below.
>
> *NT domain is substituted for our NT domain name.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Idris · External Since: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 1

Yeh i tried earlier with that first link (although i don't get 4262 error)
and it would not find the record which was odd.
I'll have another look but im fairly sure they are service packed up. I
think i will try and apply again though.

Thanks

<jwgoerlich RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1182444058.950738.106040@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Microsoft Article 176202, How to Troubleshoot WINS Event IDs 4261 and
> 4262
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176202
>
> Microsoft Article 190506, WINS Replication Problem Events 4262, 4261,
> and 1c Replication
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190506
>
> On Jun 21, 11:50 am, "Idris" <i... RemoveThis @iddiinisde.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Wondering if anyone can help with this at all. Cross posted to a few
>> places
>> as sure most people have had experience of WINS here.
>>
>> I've got 2 WINS servers (very old). On one I keep getting system event
>> errors all day long which are event id 4260 and 4261. I've googled and
>> googled but can't find anything that fixes it.
>>
>> Below are the errors. If anyone could help/offer suggestions i'd greatly
>> appreciate.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> ERROR 4260
>> WINS got an error while registering replicas. It will not register any
>> more
>> replicas of this WINS (address is in data section 4th-8th byte; also
>> check
>> previous log entry) at this time. Please check a previous log entry to
>> determine the reason for this. If this error persists over time i.e. you
>> get the same error during subsequent replication with the above partner
>> WINS, you may want to restore the database from the backup.
>>
>> ERROR 4261
>> WINS got an exception while trying to register a group's replica with
>> name
>> NTDOMAIN* . The replica is owned by WINS with address given below.
>>
>> *NT domain is substituted for our NT domain name.
>
>