From: Thees Peereboom 

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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