Recent content by dougancil

As these servers all have static IP's they won't be changing any time soon. The only machines that change IP's are laptops that people bring into the network and any workstations that I add which in two years, has been a total of 2. I will be mindful of the fact that lmhosts and hosts file's are...

I have 12 servers in my network. Everything from Windows NT to Windows 7 platforms. I inherited this network so there was no rhyme or reason when it was put together. Everything seems to work now though. I added to the hosts file of one of the 3 Windows 7 machines (this one happens to be a...

So after adding the hosts file and rebooting the pc ... it now works. I'm not sure why a reboot was required for it to work but it does. Thank you for all of your help.

I added all of the machines to one of the hosts file and I'm still not able to see anything from that server. The machine is only seeing 3 other networked machines. This is just odd and bizarre and I can't figure it out. Any other ideas?

Ok so I've checked all the machines to see if they are running any kind of 3rd party software and have turned off all security features and still can't see the machines. Any other ideas?

I am getting a network name not found. I've checked all machines involved for any third party software that may be impeding any kind of activity. I'll have to take a deeper look and let you know.

I have a shared path on 2 of the three machines and I am not able to map a path to that drive via UNC using the netbios name from any machine in my network.

That's what confusing me too. I haven't done a UNC connection but I do RD between these machines all the time via IP. I'll try it via netbios name and let you know.

Sorry, my last post was incorrect. The server did have a WINS instance installed. It was just stopped. I have started it and I'm looking at the entries and the entries are correct for the machines listed. So no tombstoning had to be done. I've flushed the DNS and re-registered it. I'm not...

It appears that there isnt a WINS database on the DC. I think that all DNS are added manually via the hosts file.

The DC is Windows 2003 Server and it is updated with all the latest patches. I didn't have any issues joining these pc's to the domain at all.

The only reason that I mention AD is that it just seems odd to me that all of my network can see each other via AD and netbios, and of course all of my network is point to the controller as the resolver for both WINS and DHCP. I'll look at this a bit more in detail but it's specific, so far to...

Ok so I upgraded the Vista machine and now I have 3 Windows & machines in my network. None of them can see each other, but I had a mapped drive that was saved to my local Windows 7 machine that can now get access to the newly upgraded 7 machine. I can ping back and forth between all 3 machines...

I just performed pinging another machine in my network from the Windows 7 machine and then looked at the netbios table cache and there was still nothing there. I am able to see the Windows 7 machine from any other machine on the network.

I followed your instructions and while I can still ping both of the machines via netbios name, I am not seeing either one in the cache after doing so.