From: "geo" 

You tried these from a machine other than the one named DELL? The netstat
command should have told you the username logged into the new machine.

Geo.

"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
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> Geo,
>
> ping \\Dell returns 'unknown host'
> nbtstat -a Dell returns, among others, Dell = Group
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
>
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:26:25 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
> >from another machine
> >
> >ping \\dell
> >
> >and
> >
> >nbtstat -a dell
> >
> >see if that gives a clue as to who the other machine is then go kick
butt.
> >
> >Geo.
> >
> >"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
> >news:csik3v41vp1encphd532v2v5qs91faucra{at}4ax.com...
> >> All,
> >>
> >> Tonight we had an outage. This morning all systems booted fine, except
> >> for my main workstation (W2K). When I try to log on, the machine
> >> reports 'Name already exists in network (or words alike - I translate
> >> from Dutch)'. I can log on, use TCP/IP and other protocols, but not
> >> Windows Networking, so no shares available, etc.
> >>
> >> When I take a look at the network from some of the other machines, I
> >> see that a new domain has been created, Dell, which is also the name
> >> of my main workstation. From the domainserver I can look at it (it's
> >> empty - no machines), but have limited rights to it.
> >>
> >> I think I can solve this by chanching the name of my machine, but this
> >> creates an awful lot of work regarding sharenames, etc.
> >>
> >> I've had something like this before, but can't remember what to do to
> >> get rid of this problem and I would appreciate some hints.
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >>
> >> - Thees Peereboom
> >
>

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