RE: "Duplicate Name on the network"

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I fixed it. When I disable the WINS service on the fileserver, it stop
prompting the error. I guess it was because the WINS database corupted.
thanks anyway.

"Allen" wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> I've got some ideas of the problem. (I am new to this company...)
>
> We have a fileserver with the name "COMPANY", and the domain is
> "COMPANY.local". I got this in every machines' event log:
> "The name "COMPANY :0" could not be registered on the Interface with
> IP address 192.168.100.90. The machine with the IP address 192.168.100.238
> did not allow the name to be claimed by this machine."
>
> 192.168.100.238 is the fileserver that is not on the domain. I guess if I
> change the name of fileserver, the problem will fix. But I will need to do
> many changes to client machines.
>
> Any simple way to get it fixed?
>
> Thanks.
>
> "Jason_thekiller" wrote:
>
> > Allen,
> >
> > Have you set static IP for all your machines in the domain? If so, try
> > chaning it to dynamic as it is a local network. This should help.
> >
> > Also, please elaborate on the number of the Computers you use in the network
> > and the OS installed in them.
> >
> > Bye!
> >
> > "Allen" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi I have a Windows 2003 domain. These few days, I have a "A duplicate name
> > > exists on the network" error when I starts win xp pro. Not only me, but also
> > > all machines on my domain, even servers.
> > > I am sure there is only one machine using this name. I have tested to change
> > > my PC name to another and reboot. After reboot, the same error message
> > > prompts again.
> > > My network is very simple. 2 AD server, one of them is DHCP server. Could
> > > anyone can help.
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