I administer a peer-to-peer workgroup. There is a Windows 2000 Server which stores all sensitive data, and about 14 Windows98 clients which make up the network.
The windows98 machines have shortcuts to server folders on their desktops. Often, they are unable to open them. the IP address of the server is 192.168.0.1, which I can ping from any machine on the network. However, when I ping server1 by name on the computers when they are unable to open the server folders, it tries to ping 192.168.0.43, which is not the server’s IP Address. If I run the nbtstat -r command to flush the name cache, the clients will work fine for a day or two, then the next day they may do the same thing again… they can ping server1 by address, but not by name.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
thanks
