"Kris Shaw" wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:07:03 -0800, ldesimone
> <ldesim***@discussions.microsoft.com> said to us:
>
> >Hi,
> >I am having a really strange problem.  I have a wins server which keeps
> >generating 1mb log files.   It does this until there is no more diskspace. 
> >It will flush the log files and start again.  I have tried several things. 
> >Removed all replication partners,manually zeroed out the database,
> >reinstalled service pack 4 and re-install wins.    No errors real errors in
> >the event viewer other than the one which get created when disk space gets
> >low.... and the Wins.exe is running at 30% processor utilization which is
> >abnormal.       I am at my witts end.   
> >
> >It's a windows 2000 server with service pack 4.     
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Hello,
>
> I had this too on one of our Win2k SP4 servers. I'm not sure exactly
> what the source of the problem was but think it was an XP client. This
> particular client (SP1) was showing high network traffic and its
> hostname was found in the WINS logs files repeatedly.
>
> Restarting the client and truncating the WINS logs (by performing an
> online WINS backup) resolved the issue.
>
> Kris
>

"ldesimone" wrote:

> Hi Kris,
>
> Thanks for the info....  I ended up calling Microsoft Support yesterday 
>
> Your right it was an Win XP client causing my problem but it was a little
> different.  This client kept registering itself to WINS and basically
> flooding the wins directory with log files.   
>
> It had a service called NetDDE (Network Dynamic Data Exchange) enabled.   We
> don't use it here and I am not sure how it got enabled.      Once, I disabled
> it off the client my problems was resloved.
>
> Thanks Again,
> Laura
>
> "Kris Shaw" wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:07:03 -0800, ldesimone
> > <ldesim***@discussions.microsoft.com> said to us:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >I am having a really strange problem.  I have a wins server which keeps
> > >generating 1mb log files.   It does this until there is no more diskspace. 
> > >It will flush the log files and start again.  I have tried several things. 
> > >Removed all replication partners,manually zeroed out the database,
> > >reinstalled service pack 4 and re-install wins.    No errors real errors in
> > >the event viewer other than the one which get created when disk space gets
> > >low.... and the Wins.exe is running at 30% processor utilization which is
> > >abnormal.       I am at my witts end.   
> > >
> > >It's a windows 2000 server with service pack 4.     
> > >
> > >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I had this too on one of our Win2k SP4 servers. I'm not sure exactly
> > what the source of the problem was but think it was an XP client. This
> > particular client (SP1) was showing high network traffic and its
> > hostname was found in the WINS logs files repeatedly.
> >
> > Restarting the client and truncating the WINS logs (by performing an
> > online WINS backup) resolved the issue.
> >
> > Kris
> >