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by jamrock

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I have 3 W2K (spk2) and 4 NT40(spk 6) servers all in the same domain, mix mode. Also workstations are W2K. Users data are located on NT40 server(NYC211). Problem; ON WKST1 a User or Administrator can login and get mappings and able to browse and ping all servers.
If I take the same user or Administrator to WKSTA2 they can log onto the network. They are able to Ping all (servers by IP or Name) they are able to browse all servers EXCEPT NYC211 server where their user data files are. Cannot mapto this server.
Any Help,
Thanks

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by jamrock

The error msg I get when trying to browse NYC211 server is "\\nyc211 is not accessible. The network path was not found".

by jack republic

win2k servers use dns to regester names(hosts),nt4 use wins (netbios names),you
shuold enter the ip address of the win2k dns in the network properties of the nt4 server
or menualy place A record in the forword lookup zon.

by curacao_dejavu

On the NYC211 is the server service not installed or not running properly.
r-klik networkneighboorhoud , properties, add server service. or check control panel for if the server service is running.

Also check in usermanager for domains, pollicies , user rights ,if the everyone has to right to access the server via network.
If that server if a member server you have to select the local domain to do that (in usermanager for domain , select domain and type nyc211 and follow the first part.update the nic drivers and reinstall service pack 6a.

That should do it.

regards,

Leopold

by joseph moore

First, the answer that usually works:
Are you running WINS somewhere? If so, are both WKSTA2 and NYC211 both configured to use it (that way, their info is written to WINS)? If not, try that.
Or, if you don't want to implement WINS, just add NYC211's info to the LMHOSTS file in WKSTA2.

Now, that usually does the trick.

But, I ran into a similar problem, and it turns out that Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service was not running on the remote machine. Not RPC Locator, just plain ol' RPC. Maybe that is it. Check it out.

Hope this helps.

by jamrock

I am not using Wins, Lmhosts file already contain NYC211, RPC service is running

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