From: "Geo." 

Find all the machines that have DELL as the workgroup, change them all to
DELLwg as the workgroup name then try to ping the machine by name. Problem
is you have a workgroup and a machine with the same name, unless you can
find the machine the only way to find it via the network is if you allow it
to come up with it's name and I don't think thats happening because the
name is already in use as a workgroup. It's probably being disabled
(netbios) when the machine boots.

Geo.

"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
news:i6cq3vsc7i9mj9k4o9aff1m8lbvvh2srcr{at}4ax.com...
> Geo,
>
> I did. Answer is 'unknown host'. If I ping it by IPaddress, it
> responds well. Moreover, whenever I try to connect to this mysterious
> domain 'DELL' it says 'PDC not found'. I try to admin the workstation
> DELL from the NT-server (PDC) remove and add it from the usual domain
> is ok. Promoting the machine DELL to BDC won't work, responds again
> with 'PDC not found'.
>
> I'm really out of ideas.
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:26:39 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
> >Yes, thanks, leave the \\ off the ping Thees.
> >
> >Geo.
> >
> >"You Can"  wrote in message
> >news:MPG.18a47bc3f7eb6c439896e0{at}news.barkto.com...
> >> In article ,
> >> theesp{at}barkto.com says...
> >> > ping \\Dell returns 'unknown host'
> >> >
> >> >
> >> I believe that should be 'Ping dell."  I get the same
results as you do
> >> with "\\hostname."
> >> --
> >> l'bodacious
> >
>

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