Re: cannot find \\ServerName

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From: Jeff (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:10:09 -0800

We have been in native mode for over a year with no
problem. All DC's are Win 2k. Evrything has been great
until 4 days ago. Last time this happened I upgraded the
NIC driver on one of the servers and the problem went
away. I upgraded everything and nothing changed.
>-----Original Message-----
>"Jeff" wrote:
>: Something happened in the last few days. I have a
Windows 2K Active Dir
>Native Mode network. I have Windows 95/98/2000/XP
clients. I have 5 Domain
>Controllers. My PDC Emulator DC (ProblemServer) that
also holds Exchange
>5.5 won't athenticate Widnows 95/98 clients. In fact, if
the NETLOGON
>service is running on that DC all Windows 95/98 machines
get "The domain
>password you supplied is not correct, or access to your
logon server has
>been denied." If I stop the NETLOGON service the Windows
95/98 clients
>logon find (With the logon script and everything).
Windows 2000/XP client
>always logon fine. If I go Start > Run, \\ProblemServer
from Windows 9x I
>get "Cannot find \\ProblemServer". Windows 2000/XP are
fine. They can go
>Start > Run \\ProblemServer and access shared folders.
All other servers I
>can access from Windows 9x by going start > run
\\OtherServer. I can ping
>for Windows 9x to ProblemServer. The only thing I can
think that I added to
>that server this week is "Exchange 5.5 CDO Patch 2657.55"
to solve an OWA
>problem. Any ideas? How do I log logon problems?
Monitor logon problems?
>
>All of your DCs are W2K and above?
>You're not running native IP mode now, are you?
>
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