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by flynmonkey

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I am running a Novell 6 server and I also use Microsoft peer to peer for one printer for 3 people. It is attached to an XP workstation and shared using MS print sharing. It was working fine for about a year then all of it one of the computers could no longer print. The computer that is sharing the printer and the client computer can't ping each other when on main network. When I isolate the two computers on a single switch then it works. Any ideas what could be causing the IP problem?

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by bfilmfan

DNS isn't working is the answer.

When the systems are on differnt segments, can you ping the systems by IP address?

If not, you have a routing issue.

Can you ping them by their Fully Qualified Domain name?

If not, the systems aren't registering with the DNS server.

You can force a Microsoft based OS to clear the DNS cache register itself with the DNS server with the following command lines:

IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS

IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS

If you are attempting to ping the systems by name and not use the Fully Qualified Domain Name, you will need either a hosts file on each system or use a WINS server.

If you have a WINS server, you can use these command to register the workstations with it.

NBTSTAT -RR

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