Wins updated when the IP address changed? Sounds similar to a problem I had a few months ago, except sometimes I couldn't resolve the server by name, and ping would report the old IP address on an intermittent basis.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:44 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Forgot to mention I already made sure it was disabled and it has been... > > I was told that the gateway IP on Server-5 was changed about 2 weeks ago > and the server had not been rebooted since. Wondering if a reboot might > help then. I'll be able to take it offline in about 90 minutes and check. > > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Jim Majorowicz [email protected] > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:35:17 -0800 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: issue with accessing \\servername > > > Check the firewall on Server-5. Chances are it's been turned on and is > blocking access. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 1:13 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: issue with accessing \\servername > > Puzzling issue... > > We have 2 sites/locations connected a site-to-site VPN... > > At site A, we have a number of servers, one of which is a Win2003R2 server > called (for example) Server-5. From site A, all the other servers and > clients can access Server-5 properly. They can ping it by IP and ping by > server name. They can access shares via \\Server-5 and by > \\IP-Address-for-Server-5. > > > At site B, we have a two servers. Both servers can ping Server-5 in Site-A > by BOTH the ip address (although it automatically resolves to the fqdn > name) and computername. However, accessing the server via \\Server-5 or > \\IP-Address-for-Server-5 does not work. It did notice that immediately > after trying to access \\server-5 from both of these server, if I do a > nbtstat -c, the Server-5 DOES show up in the list. How strange. > > It seems like network connectivity isn't a problem, since I can ping > properly. > > Any idea what might be going on here? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com - Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on > MicrosoftR > Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on > Microsoft(R) > Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
