A duplicate name exists on the network - any ideas?

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Hello Folks,

Here's the situation. I have a single AD domain with 3 domain controllers
all the same network segment. The servers are named differently, for
example - server1, server2 and server3. I'm running AD integrated DNS for
the domain and the domain name is nwtraders.com (no this isn't a MS cert
question but rather in a lab setting!) I would like to map a drive from a
client to a server and use an alternate name. So instead of using

net use * \\servername\sharename (which works)

I would rather use,

net use * \\prefferedname\sharename (which reports a duplicate name exists
on the network)

All I'm doing to is creating a new A record in the DNS zone called
preferredname. For example,

nwtraders zone file:
Server1 (A) 10.0.0.1
Server2 (A) 10.0.0.2
Server3 (A) 10.0.0.3
preferredname (A) 10.0.0.1

I also tried using the local Hosts file but still same problem...

I can ping both prefferedname and server1 and get a reply with the same IP
address. Any ideas as to why this isn't working? Any ideas as to what would
work here?

Thanks in Advance, your help is appreciated,

ML
 
A better solution might be to use DFS which would allow you to map
\\prefferedname to any folder you wanted.
 
Hi Matt,

The following KB article explains how to get this working:

281308 Connecting to SMB Share on a Windows 2000-Based Server May Not Work
with
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281308

Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
FYI,

I was doing this no problem to a server that was at SP3. I installed SP4 and
then I started having this exact problem. I found the referenced MS article
and did the registry fix and that worked. From my perspective SP4
re-introduced this issue that was fixed in SP3.
 
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