Debugging WINS Server Service Event ID 4179

CAUSE

During the WINS Server service initialization, the service checks for the port number that the Name service will bind to. The service does this by calling the GetServByName API. This API must locate the Services file under System32\Drivers directory. If the Services file is missing, the GetServByName API will fail. The result is that the WINS Service will raise an exception indicating that the service could not create the notification socket. This exception will be logged in the error log as Event ID 4179.