WINS, DNS and MS Shares

[Adrian Marsh (NNTP)]

I've a machine called swocmpq01, which has a dns alias of "apps"
I've a share off swocmpq01 called software$

I can ping "apps" (qualifies to swocmpq01), and browse \\swocmpq01 but
can't browse to \\apps.

I know its probably a WINs issue, but I don't have a wins server
running. Any solution???

 

[Martin Bayer]

Hello, look at this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281308

Maybe it helps you to solve your problem.

Martin

 

[Adrian Marsh (NNTP)]

Thanks,

But I'm running SP4, so this fix should be there already...
I might try the reg hack on a test machine though..

A.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

In

Thanks,

But I'm running SP4, so this fix should be there
already... I might try the reg hack on a test machine
though..

A.

If you read the article it says,
"To resolve this problem, obtain and install the latest Windows 2000 service
pack, and then edit the registry."

 

[Adrian Marsh (NNTP)]

It also says that the issue was "first corrected in SP3". Anyway, I
tried it and it worked for machines near to the Server, but not for
machines distant in the network. I guess thats because it only affects
the lanmanager process, which is not DNS based right? I can ping
apps.my.domain.com from a distance, but can't browse to it.

A.