From: "Robert Comer" 

Do a netbios scan on the whole LAN looking for an IP address that doesn't respond?

Or the tried and true sneakernet scan looking in the event viewer...

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message news:3e3d513c{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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