WINS is not required! LOL! Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Greg Deckler Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 1:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: OT. Network puzzle. Error 53. Do you installed WINS installed? I realize that technically it is *not required* in W2K but if you are having NetBIOS-related name resolution issues, this may be a quick way to fix it. > Hi all. I was just trying to help someone with a seeminly easy thing > but = could not figure it out. > > This guy has two Windows 2000 Server SP3 machines. Both machines have > = two NICs. One is using an internal 192.168.0.x address and the other > NIC = is using an external IP address. > > One is already a domain controller. The second one is a member and he > is = trying to promote it to become domain controller #2. Dcpromo > fails a = minute or so after it starts and complains about not being > able to do = some Netbios-related stuff with his dc#1.domain.com > > He can ping dc#1 from dc#2 and vice versa. > He can do net view \\dc#1 from dc#2 and vice versa. > He can do ping ip_address_#1 from dc#2 and vice versa. > > However he cannot do net view \\dc#1.domain.com from dc#2 and vice = > versa. He gets System Error 53. Network path not found. > > We checked everything. > > The machines are registered in DNS. We even created HOSTS files and = > LMHOSTS files, although there was no problem pinging without them = > anyway. > > We tried only registering the internal IPs - did not help > We tried only registering the external IPs - did not help > We tried disabling the internal NIC - did not help > We checked and re-checked the DNS > We made sure that the NetBIOS over TCP/IP was enabled > We made sure that bindings were in place > > Could someone please give me any more ideas? > > Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
