From: Thees Peereboom 

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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