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by dion1

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I have a server running Windows NT 4.0, on Monday morning I notice on Network neighborhood that all the computers on a separed subnet weren't showing. First thing came to my mind was WINS service, so I stopped and restarted WINS Service, this actionpromped me to rebootthe Server. After I reboot, and log on, I received a message that my Map drives were not found, I tried to start Workstation service and I received a error message "Error 0052 A duplicate name exist on the Network" I did check for duplicated names , but I did not found any. My PDC is off line and no body can get access to the shared files. Can you please help with an answer to this problem.

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by curacao_dejavu

this problem will arise when you have more than 1 nic on the server. You have to unbind some services (netbeui and wins) from one of the adapters.

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Leopold

by @lberto

First of all you have to know which Protocol are you using on your network, I guess you're using TCP, the best you can do is just disable all the protocols your not using on each NIC, ej. NETBEUI and WINNS, just unbind them and that will make it.
This problems happens very often when you have more than 1 NIC and binding different protocols
I Hope it helps,
@lberto

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