Name Resolution

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Charles

I have a Windows 2000 peer to peer network. All of a
sudden one of my PC's can not map using computer name. any
ideas.
 
Not many details to go on, so here are some questions and things to test:

1. Check to make sure you have a vaild IP address for your network - from a
command prompt type "ipconfig /all"
2. Try to ping the IP address of other computers on the network.
3. Try to ping the names of other computers on the network.
4. Are the other computers on the same subnet?
5. How are the computers physically connected?

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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Hi Charles,

Not much info to go on. Make sure that someone did not change the workgroup name on the
machine. The workgroup name is case sensative and must match EXACTLY with the others.

You didn't say what else this machine can or cannot do, so I don't know if there are other
signals that may lead to a solution.

When you say "cannot map by name", do you mean it can map by IP address? If it can mpa
by IP address, did somone change the name of the machine or the IP? Are you using hosts or
lmhosts file on the machine and they have been changed or removed? Have they bene
updated with any recent changes?

Has NetBIOS over TCP/IP been disabled on the machine?

Can you ping the name and get back the right IP?

Can you map to other machines?

Can other machine map to the one this one cannot reach?

Thanks,
Gary


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