SUMMARY
Chapter 8, page 467, of the Windows NT Server 4.0
Networking Guide, "Managing Microsoft WINS Servers," contains the following
documentation error. The first paragraph under the section "Backing Up the
Database" states the following:
WINS Manager provides backup tools so that you can back up the WINS
database. After you specify a backup directory for the database, WINS
performs complete database backups every "three" hours, by installation
default.
This information is also incorrectly documented in the WINS
Manager Help in Windows NT 4.0:
Specifies the path to the folder where the backup copies of the
database are to be stored. If you specify a backup path, WINS
automatically performs a full backup of its database to this folder
every 3 hours.
This information is incorrect. After specifying the path, WINS
performs a complete database backup every 24 hours.
The Windows NT
Server 3.51 WINS Manager Help and the Resource Kit in Volume II, "Networking
Guide", Chapter 14, "Installing and Configuring WINS Servers", page 298, first
paragraph, correctly documents this information.
Important: The documentation for the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit also
has this documentation error in the "TCP/IP Core Networking Guide", Chapter 7,
Page 522. The interval for the WINS Autobackup in Windows 2000 is 27 hours, not
24 hours as it is in Windows NT 4.0.