From: Thees Peereboom 

Bob,

When I log on my main system, it reports 'name already exists in network'.
From there on shares no longer work and I can not browse to other machines
using Windows Networking. TCP/IP and other protocols still work. When I
look at Network environment from this machine (DELL) there are no other
machines visible.

When looking from another machine using network environment, I can find my
own machine, I also find a new domain that carries the name of my machine,
DELL. The usual domain is called IBMPEERS (it started its life as ..., you
guessed it...)

When I try to administer this DELL domain (from the PDC that administers
IBMPEERS) it claims that it can't find the PDC for that domain. In the
IBMPEERS domain I already deleted and added the machine DELL again and
promoted it to BDC. No problem. But when I want to synch the PDC and BDC, I
get the message 'access denied'.

So from other machines I see and can use the machine DELL. From the machine
DELL I see no other machines when using Microsoft Networking.

Now, aren't you glad you asked 

- Thees Peereboom

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 07:39:01 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>> The problem is that this machine is not recognized on the network by
>> it's NETBIOSname, but is by it's IPnumber.
>
>But that should mean that Netbios is disabled, so you look for a machine
>with it disabled...
>
>I guess I don't understand the problem then though, you know the IP address
>(the PDC for DELL), but not which machine it is?
>
>- Bob Comer
>
>
>"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
>news:qsbs3vsnr3futbcf8pbig7o1r97qhcga93{at}4ax.com...
>> Bob,
>>
>> The problem is that this machine is not recognized on the network by
>> it's NETBIOSname, but is by it's IPnumber.
>>
>> - Thees Peereboom
>>
>> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:25:34 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>>  wrote:
>>
>> >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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