Duplicate Name>?

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David Gonzalez

at the log ion screen i get a window tha says "a duplicate
Name exists in the network".
Please some one any-body?
what does this mean?
how do i get RID of it?
 
You have two computers on the network with the same computer name.
Right click on My computer select properties - network ID tab - Properties
button. Change the computer name to one not used on your network

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
Hello Danny,

These are actually pretty cool to troubleshoot and in most cases somewhat
easy.

You need to look at the NETBT error and examine the last 4 sets of numerals
at the bottom. Stick each on separately into calc with the HEX radio button
checked and then press Dec. Now you have the four octets of the IP address
but you may notice something odd....they are backwards. Flip flop the digits
and you should now have the IP address of the "other" box. In some cases the
IP address of the box specified in the error is the same box you are on.
This error may sometimes occur if the machine you are on has 2 IP addresses.

Keep in mind that they are allot of possible causes for this error, check
out the following article for ideas:

131740 Possible Causes of the NetBT Event ID 4320
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=131740

Here is another sort of cool way to find a computer in your network:

First shut down the machine logging the error, then run the following
commands to attempt to find an additional, previously unknown workstation
with the same name

nbtstat -R
net send <computername> "message" (if the message verifies as "sent", then
there is an additional workstation with the same name on the network)
nbtstat -c

Now we have an IP address of this workstation

PING -a <ip address associated with the users account name shown in
nbtstat -c)

Now (if DNS is setup right) we should have the fully qualified name of the
computer.


Buz Brodin
MCSE NT4 / Win2K
Microsoft Enterprise Domain Support

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