| Event Id | 4261 |
| Source | Wins |
| Description | WINS got an exception while trying to register a groups replica with name groupname. The replica is owned by WINS with address given below. |
| Event Information | According to Microsoft: CAUSE: This problem may be caused by the following: • WINS stops replication or scavenging encountered a record that was in an unexpected state, for example the replica of a special group that has all members timed out but the state is not tombstone or a replica that is in the released state. • WINS is modifying the record time-to-live (TTL) value during replication. The TTL of the name is set to 0xFFFFFFF resulting in the infinite expiration date. A fix is now available that does the following: • WINS is modified so that, during replication/scavenging, if WINS encounters an exception while trying to register a group or unique replica, the record is overwritten, ownership is determined by the most recent registration, and replication/scavenging continues. • WINS is modified such that, when group members are unioned, Windows NT changes the ownership only if a bigger list is created. The time stamp for the record is also modified to verify the interval instead of 0xFFFFFFFF, which resulted in the expiration date. • There has also been a change to how 1C records are treated with migrate on enabled. In the past, after a 1C record was initialized as static, the only way to get the record back to dynamic was to delete the record on all servers and restart the servers. Now the record is changed to dynamic if the owning wins server changes the record to dynamic. To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. |
| Reference Links | WINS Replication Problem Events 4261 obtain the latest Windows NT 4.0 service pack |
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