What does server_cifs <movername> (or ALL) say? The celerra tends to do WINS lookups as well if it can. It'll also cache until a name dies, is stuffed and mounted.
-Anders On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle < [email protected]> wrote: > Hoping perhaps someone on the list has run into this. At the moment I’m > about to fall asleep in front of my laptop… > > > > Situation…had a NAS checkup post a warning that it couldn’t ping a DC with > an APIPA address named *SMBSERVER. The APIPA address was 169.254.2.238. > > > > Discovered that one of my DCs had a NIC enabled but not connected, and > guess what? DHCP was enabled on the NIC and it had the address of > 169.254.2.238… > > > > So, disabled the NIC, ran a nas_checkup on my NS-20 Celerra, and still had > the error. I stopped and restarted the CIFS services (per EMC support) and > the nas_checkup came back clean. (YAY!) Then tried to connect to CIFS and no > dice… (BOO!) > > > > I’ve checked every service I can think of to check, even restarted a few. > Re-enabled the NIC to no avail… I do know that the APIPA address for the > disabled NIC is still in the registry, but at this point I don’t think that > matters, because the Celerra theroretically doesn’t know about it anymore. > The Celerra can ping both of my DCs just fine, and I can ping my NetBIOS > CIFS share server names no problem. However when I try to connect to > \\servername or \\IP-address, I get: > > > > > > “No network provider accepted the given network path.” > > > > Going on 5 hours with no CIFS shares, and this is from both windows 2003 > DCs, and two different member servers, one Windows 2003 and one Windows > 2000. > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE > Technology Coordinator > Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA* > *[email protected]* > *www.eaglemds.com > > > > ------------------------------ > Any medical information contained in this electronic message is > CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to > view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This > electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or > legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) > and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended > recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete > this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this > message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on > the information that it contains. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
