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Lord Avon
Guest
All,
ok, Ive been haveing some fun...
Upgraded my PC from win2K to XP (first mistake) but as the company has decided to go forward and me being the sysadmin who has to do the upgrades I got to do it first...
Anyway, we have a medium sized NT4 domain, PDC and BDC,
with two DNS servers and about 70 machines, static IP addresses.
so My win2K machine was working fine, terminal services, mapping drives, ping the whole nine yards.
Now Ive 'upgraded' I have some problems,
> I can no longer ping by NAME, ONLY by IP number <
Needless to say this prevents a whole heap of stuff working...
We have one other machine that has XP on, and it is fine..
Ive copied the settings for the network card , but of course remembering to keep the name and IP number different ;-)
More interestingly looking at the 'my network places' shows the entire network, I guess this is useing netbios to get the host names, and not DNS...
if I drop to a Command prompt, and type 'ping myserver' I get
'pingin myserver[0.0.0.1]' timed out...
if I type 'ping 192.192.192.192' I get a reply...
if I type NSLOOKUP, it hows me the name server..
I type 'MYSERVER' and it returns 'MYSERVER.MYDOMAIN.COM - 192.192.192.192'
I've been through all the obvious things (firewall is off, DNS address's are correct,etc,etc) and even played with the registry (I had to add DHCP OPTIONS key to get the node type to be the correct type)
I'm baffled, I cant afford to rebuild from scratch and if this is the case MS will be getting 80 licenses back and we're gonna want a refund, doing a fresh install just is NOT possible on some the machines I have to upgrade...
and a 50% success rate is NOT a good basis for upgrading 70 odd machines.
any suggestions?
Paul (not impressed with XP, look, feel, use, cartoon style,etc)
ok, Ive been haveing some fun...
Upgraded my PC from win2K to XP (first mistake) but as the company has decided to go forward and me being the sysadmin who has to do the upgrades I got to do it first...
Anyway, we have a medium sized NT4 domain, PDC and BDC,
with two DNS servers and about 70 machines, static IP addresses.
so My win2K machine was working fine, terminal services, mapping drives, ping the whole nine yards.
Now Ive 'upgraded' I have some problems,
> I can no longer ping by NAME, ONLY by IP number <
Needless to say this prevents a whole heap of stuff working...
We have one other machine that has XP on, and it is fine..
Ive copied the settings for the network card , but of course remembering to keep the name and IP number different ;-)
More interestingly looking at the 'my network places' shows the entire network, I guess this is useing netbios to get the host names, and not DNS...
if I drop to a Command prompt, and type 'ping myserver' I get
'pingin myserver[0.0.0.1]' timed out...
if I type 'ping 192.192.192.192' I get a reply...
if I type NSLOOKUP, it hows me the name server..
I type 'MYSERVER' and it returns 'MYSERVER.MYDOMAIN.COM - 192.192.192.192'
I've been through all the obvious things (firewall is off, DNS address's are correct,etc,etc) and even played with the registry (I had to add DHCP OPTIONS key to get the node type to be the correct type)
I'm baffled, I cant afford to rebuild from scratch and if this is the case MS will be getting 80 licenses back and we're gonna want a refund, doing a fresh install just is NOT possible on some the machines I have to upgrade...
and a 50% success rate is NOT a good basis for upgrading 70 odd machines.
any suggestions?
Paul (not impressed with XP, look, feel, use, cartoon style,etc)