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DNS / WINS Problem

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by timothy.sharpe

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I have a Windows 2000 AD mixed mode network. Our home office has Windows 2000 DC running DNS and my 5 regional offices are running Windows NT BDCs with WINS. The PCs in all offices, including the home office, get both WINS and DNS as well as IP from a DHCP server. Everything has been working fine for about 8 months and then as of yesterday I can no longer browse my regional office's PCs or Servers from Network Neighborhood. I can ping them and if I run 'ping -a ' it resolves the name. I cannot see the same PCs or servers in network neighborhood but I was able to a few days ago. Also if I go to Start / Run and type in \\ it fails. I checked the event logs on my DC and there are no errors related to DNS or WINS, actually no errors at all. Any ideas.

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by d.walker5

from the command line type net start browser. If this doesn't solve check the lmhost file for an entry specifying the Master Browser. Hope this helps.

by sysnetmgr

We had a similar problem a while ago. After Re-booting the PDC's we found one of the servers re-dundant network card was enabled with an IP range outside our network IP. After disabling the network card and a re-boot all was well. Double check you can ping your servers. Try assigning a fixed ip address and fixed DNS WINS etc and see if you can see the network.

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