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by tksolway 1 view

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I have a multihomed server running windows 2000 SP3. I have it acting as a router using RRAS. Eventaully I want it to accept VPN connections. My problem occurs every time my external connection needs to renew itself. The external address is static, though still assinged through DHCP. Whenever it needs to renew it fails. giving the error:

The server could not bind to the transport \device\netbt_tcpip_ ... Because another computer on the network has the same name.

Yet if I disable theinternal connection temporarily it will renew. I can then enable to internal connection and it will work perfectly until it needs to renew again.

Has anyone had this problem before.

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by curlergirl

If the IP address is in effect static - that is, the DHCP server on the other end has assigned you a reservation so that you will always get the same IP - you can just put it in your NIC TCP/IP properties as a static IP. No one will know the diff. You really should have both of the NICs in your server set to static IP, not DHCP, anyway.
I have the same setup on my server but with both NICs using static IP and it works perfectly.

Hope this helps!

by ann777

Remove NetBIOS from the second network adaptor in your computer and the "problem" will not occur again.

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