From: Thees Peereboom 

Geo,

It's not a workgroup, but a domain with a PDC. I can look into this machine
from the outside, but not out from the inside, that is with Windows
Networking. TCP/IP and other protocols function ok.

I tried to rejoin the domain from this machine, but it refuses to recognize
the domain ('unknown domain'), although on the PDC the machine is accepted
as a domain member, accepted as a BDC, but refuses to synch with the PDC.

Challenges, challenges 

Thanks for the help sofar.

- Thees Peereboom

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:18:21 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>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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