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<blockquote data-quote="Trouble" data-source="post: 631475" data-attributes="member: 29141">No not really...&nbsp; you can use something like an LMhost file to resolve IP address to NetBIOS names (Google it) it's not very handy, so......You might be better off considering adding the WINS server role to your server and pointing all your clients to the WINS server for NetBIOS name resolution.Additionally you may want to double check and make sure all your machines have the Computer Browser service starting automatically as well as the NetBIOS Helper service.&nbsp; Just checkservices.mscon all the machines. And....You may want to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP in the IP v 4 properties of your network cards on all your machines.Sometimes those two little things help with NetBIOS resolution.I just realized that I was giving you all this NetBIOS information junk and never asked you if you were running DNS on your server.&nbsp; I'm not too familiar with the Essentials version of Windows Server 2k12 but if you have it running and it is working properly so as all your machine's have their names and ip address (&quot;A&quot; records) registered then if you add that DNS server address to the number one spot as preferred DNS server on each client then it should work fine.DNS works great for local name resolution but if you're not using other components of Active Directory it might be a bit over kill.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trouble, post: 631475, member: 29141"] No not really... you can use something like an LMhost file to resolve IP address to NetBIOS names (Google it) it's not very handy, so...... You might be better off considering adding the WINS server role to your server and pointing all your clients to the WINS server for NetBIOS name resolution. Additionally you may want to double check and make sure all your machines have the Computer Browser service starting automatically as well as the NetBIOS Helper service. Just check services.msc on all the machines. And.... You may want to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP in the IP v 4 properties of your network cards on all your machines. Sometimes those two little things help with NetBIOS resolution. I just realized that I was giving you all this NetBIOS information junk and never asked you if you were running DNS on your server. I'm not too familiar with the Essentials version of Windows Server 2k12 but if you have it running and it is working properly so as all your machine's have their names and ip address ("A" records) registered then if you add that DNS server address to the number one spot as preferred DNS server on each client then it should work fine. DNS works great for local name resolution but if you're not using other components of Active Directory it might be a bit over kill. [/QUOTE]

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