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| Wildog 2003-02-18, 4:24 pm |
| Hi
I have the following problem.
I have the following set up
1 Windows 2000 server acting as a domain controller, Wins, DHCP, DNS
1 Windows 98 client, dhcp client, wins client
They are networked with a crossover cable etc.
Server name - Wildog, IP address - 10.0.0.1
Client name - Client, IP address DHCP assigned usually 10.0.0.3
Problem - I can ping the server from the win 98 client using
the IP address 10.0.0.1 and everything is fine.
But if I type ping Wildog from the win 98 client,
it just pings itself(10.0.0.3). There is no network
traffic between the 2 machines. Why isn't the client
making any attempt to contact the server to resolve
the server name wildog to its IP address 10.0.0.1.
Why is the client resolving the Server name to the
client address?
Cheers Wildog
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| David Brownridge 2003-02-18, 5:24 pm |
| "Wildog" <willtabs@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 1 Windows 2000 server acting as a domain controller, Wins, DHCP, DNS
> 1 Windows 98 client, dhcp client, wins client
>
> They are networked with a crossover cable etc.
>
> Server name - Wildog, IP address - 10.0.0.1
>
> Client name - Client, IP address DHCP assigned usually 10.0.0.3
>
> Problem - I can ping the server from the win 98 client using
> the IP address 10.0.0.1 and everything is fine.
> But if I type ping Wildog from the win 98 client,
> it just pings itself(10.0.0.3). There is no network
> traffic between the 2 machines. Why isn't the client
> making any attempt to contact the server to resolve
> the server name wildog to its IP address 10.0.0.1.
> Why is the client resolving the Server name to the
> client address?
It would probably help if you included a WINIPCFG /ALL on \\client
And the ouput from PING WILDOG
followed fairly immediately by a NBTSTAT -c and NBTSTAT -n
(NB: the parameters to nbtstat are case-sensitive.)
Is there a hosts file?
(Idly wondering if the client thinks its name is \\wildog....)
--
rgds
David Brownridge
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| Steven L Umbach 2003-02-18, 6:24 pm |
| Use nbtstat -r to see how name was resolved - wins or broadcast. Since
it is a wins client I would check wins database to see what is going on
there - any static entries?? Double check the W98 computer name and tcp/ip
address - use winipcfg in run box, then more details. Another possibility is
if there are any entries referring to Wilddog in the lmhosts file -
particularly those with the #pre tag. --- Steve
"Wildog" <willtabs@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3e52b21a$0$5528$afc38c87@
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> Hi
> I have the following problem.
> I have the following set up
>
> 1 Windows 2000 server acting as a domain controller, Wins, DHCP, DNS
> 1 Windows 98 client, dhcp client, wins client
>
> They are networked with a crossover cable etc.
>
> Server name - Wildog, IP address - 10.0.0.1
>
> Client name - Client, IP address DHCP assigned usually 10.0.0.3
>
> Problem - I can ping the server from the win 98 client using
> the IP address 10.0.0.1 and everything is fine.
> But if I type ping Wildog from the win 98 client,
> it just pings itself(10.0.0.3). There is no network
> traffic between the 2 machines. Why isn't the client
> making any attempt to contact the server to resolve
> the server name wildog to its IP address 10.0.0.1.
> Why is the client resolving the Server name to the
> client address?
>
> Cheers Wildog
>
>
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| Your client is a WINS client but not a DNS client?
Check to see if WINS (and DNS if client is a DNS client) has wilddog as =
10.0.0.3
In news:3e52b21a$0$5528$afc38c87@
news.ukonline.co.uk,
Wildog <willtabs@ukonline.co.uk> mused:
> Hi
> I have the following problem.
> I have the following set up
>=20
> 1 Windows 2000 server acting as a domain controller, Wins, DHCP, DNS
> 1 Windows 98 client, dhcp client, wins client
>=20
> They are networked with a crossover cable etc.
>=20
> Server name - Wildog, IP address - 10.0.0.1
>=20
> Client name - Client, IP address DHCP assigned usually 10.0.0.3
>=20
> Problem - I can ping the server from the win 98 client using
> the IP address 10.0.0.1 and everything is fine.
> But if I type ping Wildog from the win 98 client,
> it just pings itself(10.0.0.3). There is no network
> traffic between the 2 machines. Why isn't the client
> making any attempt to contact the server to resolve
> the server name wildog to its IP address 10.0.0.1.
> Why is the client resolving the Server name to the
> client address?
>=20
> Cheers Wildog
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