Re: Domain not accessable in Network Neighborhood

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:51:00 -0500

In news:8034E329-4B2D-4728-B542-83B630C6480D@microsoft.com,
Pat Gallacher <patg@mth.org> commented
Then Kevin replied below:
> I have a brand new Active Directory run by three (3)
> Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition servers. This was NOT an
> NT domain upgrade or anything. Server1 is supposed to be
> the PDC of the domain, Pha, and the other two are BDC's.
> Server1 is the master browser. When viewing Network
> Neighborhood it can browse and see PC's in the domain.
> No other PC in the entire domain, including the other
> domain controllers, can see anything, however. We get
> the following pop-up:
> Pha is not accessable. You might not have permission to
> use this network resource. COntact the administrator of
> this server to find out if you have access permissions.
> Windows cannot find the network path. Verify that the
> network path is correct and the destinantion computer is
> not busy or turned off. If Windows still cannot find the
> network path, contact your newtowk administrator.
>
> Any thoughts? We also cannot get Windows 98 PC's to
> validate/logon to the domain since the PDC and BDC's lost
> power and crashed simultaneously last friday. Until
> then, everything was fine.
> Tahnk You

Bad NIC maybe, definitly not DNS, since DNS has nothing to do with Network
Neighborhood.
I'd recommend installing WINS anyway with Win98 clients, WINS is more
reliable that NetBIOS broadcasts for populating Network Nieghborhood.
On a side note, there is no such thing as a Win2k or Win2k3 BDC. 

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