What is your DNS/WINS/Hosts file configuration? I doubt this is a defect in MS' networking model, almost assuredly a name resolution issue. Can you upgrade your NT4 box in place to W2K? I think you'd find life a little easier.
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Smith [mailto:adam.smith@;sageautomation.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:26 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Dialup Users We have a Windows NT 4.0 PDC which is also our main file server. We also have a Windows 2000 server which is serving RAS. When users dial up and authenticate using RAS, they all try and connect to our main file server by putting '\\server' (Don't blame me -- I didn't name it =)) into their Location bar in Windows Explorer. This is not an issue, as it is a perfectly valid way of browsing network shares. Unfortunately majority of the time, these users can either NOT resolve the name 'server' or they can only see one or two shares on that server. Today for example, one user rang me while dialled up saying he could only see the "Data" share when he should have been presented with at least four shares. He was attempting to access a share called "Resources." I told the user to map a drive manually, with "net use Z: \\server\resources." The map was unsuccessful, as the specified share could not be seen. Running "Net View" displayed only the "Data" share. I then instructed the user to do a "Net View \\192.168.0.2," and the remote user was presented with *ALL* the shares he should have seen. He then had to map a drive to the IP address of the box, rather than its NetBIOS name. All I could think was "What a joke." I've seen this so, so many times, and I find it totally rediculous. To me, this proves that if I were to write up an OSI Checklist I'd get the following: DEAD Application DEAD-ISH? Presentation :) Session :) Transport :) Network :) Data Link :) Physical if all the rest are working, it *HAS* to be a fault of the Microsoft Networking model. What else could it be? -- Adam Smith Information Technology Officer SAGE Automation Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sageautomation.com Phone: (08) 8276 0703 Fax: (08) 8276 0799 Mobile: 0414 895 273 ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
