Re: Browsing Subnets
- From: "Kurt" <lorentzenkurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:10:45 -0700
And test name resolution with nslookup from a non-working client.
....kurt
"nesdog" <nesdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Herb,
As it happens, we have two DC's on our site, with one providing AD
integrated DNS. Another server at the 2nd site also provides the DNS. We
set
up both addresses in our DHCP scope, first ours then the remote one.
WINS? That would be moving backwards, would it not? It seems to me that
DNS
should be able to offer up the name resolution for this. It actually was
working okay before so I thought perhaps something got zapped out of the
DNS
database. The machines are not browsing via Network Neighborhood; rather
we
could open Start, Run, \\machine name\share. Adding the entry into the
hosts
files solved this issue temporarily and is manageable as we are small but
are
kind of a pain to get to everyone.
Anyway, any other ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Sheldon
"Herb Martin" wrote:
"nesdog" <nesdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have two subnets at our location. Win2K AD, two DC's, one with DNS.
(we
have another site with DNS, DC's, etc across a T-1).
Not related to your problem, but both DCs should run DNS
or you really don't have full fault tolerance. (It costs almost
nothing in both setup and network traffic.)
We are suddenly experiencing a situation where a computer on one subnet
cannot browse to shared resources on the other subnet via UNC ie;
\\machine1\share will no longer appear. I suspect a DNS problem but
not
sure
how to check this. It all worked fine in the past.
Generally BROWSING is a NETBIOS issue to focus your
troubleshooting on NetBIOS (broadcasts and WINS server).
Since broadcasts don't work across subnets (i.e. across routers)
you have a practical need for WINS server(s).
In that case (using WINS Server) EVERY COMPUTER (client or
server) must be set as a WINS client -- this includes DCs and even
WINS servers themselves.
As a work around, I've had to scramble to update some hosts files while
I
resolve this. A bit of help, please? :)
That would not fix a BROWSING problem -- you would need the
more complicated LMHOSTS file for browsing -- so perhaps you
have misstated your problem....
Name resolution can take place by either DNS or NetBIOS methods
most of the time, but Browsing PER SE is a NetBIOS application.
(BTW: If you have more than one WINS server they need to be
replicated.)
Post your "IPconfig /all" from both a "missing server" and an "affected
client". Send command output to a text file and post unedited as TEXT,
not graphics.
--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
[phone number on web site]
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