Re: Duplicate name exists in the network- Where?

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Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281308


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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE

"Orvs" <Orvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:87996B4F-B26D-43B2-A407-B2D033461784@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
H HErb can you please send me the workaround or the steps I need to do?

It is more clearer now..
"Herb Martin" wrote:


"BerkHolz, Steven" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I believe that there is a fix for this, but do not have it handy.
>
> By default UNC only works with the hosts netbios name or IP address.
> It is a security feature imposed by the remote host.

UNC names can (generally) works with DNS style names or even IP
addresses (as of NT4+ with IP loaded) but there are problems for
building multiple (CNAME style) alias different from the machines
ordinary name + domain name, for accessing Shares etc.

There is a fix for this -- it's a registry entry IIRC.

> The server is seeing your request for cname and saying "That's not me, > I'm
> hosts".
> I believe that there is a setting on the remote host that turns off > this
> checking.
> cnames work fine for anything except CIFS (SMB) file sharing.

The problem is not DNS names per se, but multiple names for shares etc.

net view \\Server.Domain.Com

....will generally works if this is the machines true name.

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