We are migrating users to a Windows 2000 domain. Wondering if anyone has run a Netapp in a Win2k environment without WINS? We will probably try to add the domain, and domain crontroller entries to the toaster hosts file?

I hadn't seen an answer to this yet (maybe I missed it) so excuse me if this is a repeat.

You can run a filer without a WINS server under 2 conditions.

1. If the domain controller is on the same subnet/vlan, the filer will broadcast for one and can find it that way.

2. Under ONTAP 6.1 (just released) we will talk more like a native W2K box. We can get our info from a Microsoft W2K DNS server which has been extended by MS to answer the query "Where is a DC for Domain <X>?" This is one of the ways MS got rid of WINS. They just pushed this functionality to their DNS servers. The only caveat is that if you do this you must point the filers to MS W2K DNS servers. Non-MS DNS servers don't support these calls.

Hope this helps.

-- Adam Fox NetApp Professional Services, NC adamfox@netapp.com