Re: Workstation logon error.

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From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:26:07 -0500

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"Jordan Samulaitis" <jordan@jvsDELETEnetworks.com> wrote in message
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| The workstations are on the same lan segment
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| The DC is on the same LAN
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| I am not using wins..
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| I have not inputed an entry in the lmhosts file, should I? and if so how
| would i go about that?
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Yes -- use on workstation
192.168.1.X SERVER-NAME #PRE #DOM:AD_DOMAIN_NAME

| I have not tried that nbtstat command, what does it do????

Execute the following for syntax...
NBTSTAT /?

Ping uses TCP/IP to check if a host is "live".

MS Networking use NetBIOS over IP so you use NBTSTAT to find if the two platforms can
communicate using NetBIOS.

Dave

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  • Re: Workstation logon error.
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