Mark, I’ve just rebooted the SA machine. It’s working now. Thank you for all the useful info. I’ll keep it for future troubleshooting. But the cause for the error was File and Printer Sharing that someone managed to disable few days ago. And it needed a reboot.
Regards, Ziem -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: 04 September 2007 09:36 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] 53 error Presumably they can ping by IP Address but not name. You mentioned the term workgroup, so I presume that these machines arn't in a domain and you arn't using DNS. In which case it looks like a NetBios Issue. Have you looked int the event logs? Try in turn: 1. Check that there is no software Firewall on either machine e.g. Windows Firewall 2. Check that DEP is not enabled for all programs, right click my computer > properties > advanced > Settings button in performance section > DEP tab > 3. eboot the offending machine 4. Right click your network interface and select repair, this will renew your ip and flush name caches e.g. ARP cache, you can do all of it from the command line using netsh but this is much quicker. 5. From the command line "nbtstat -RR" will flush your netbios cache and try to re-register with a WINS server (If you have one, else will just flush) 6. From the command line "netsh int ip reset reset.log" will reset TCP/IP, pre Win2k you could just remove TCP/IP and re-install. 7. Delete your net adapter from Device Manager and re-install Mark Perry Systems & Networks Administrator Telephonetics VIP Ltd “making sound business sense” Simply dial +44 (0)1442 242 242 and ask for me by name. www.telephoneticsVIP.co.uk (http://www.telephoneticsvip.co.uk/) Providing innovative hosted and customer premises speech recognition and voice automation solutions. Disclaimer: available at http://www.telephoneticsVIP.co.uk/telephonetics/emaildisclaimer.jsp (http://www.telephoneticsvip.co.uk/telephonetics/emaildisclaimer.jsp) or by sending email to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) applies to this email. Registered address: 7th Floor, Hamilton House, 111 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP1 1BB Registered in England No: 2831215 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ziemowit Kiwer Sent: 03 September 2007 17:06 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] 53 error Dirk, this is what I got from the net view: C:\Documents and Settings\username.domain>net view \\name-of-remote-system System error 51 has occurred. Windows cannot find the network path. Verify that the network path is correct and the destination computer is not busy or turned off. If Windows still cannot find the network path, contact your network administrator. Mark, both machines are on the same side of the firewall and are able to ping each other. One thing I noticed, I used to be able to see the standalone machine in the Workgroup computers listing. Not anymore… Regards Ziem -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: 03 September 2007 16:21 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] 53 error >From the system running SA (and logged on as the same user that runs Servers >Alive) can you do net view \\name-of-remote-system And what does that give? Dirk Bulinckx. From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ziemowit Kiwer Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 5:11 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] 53 error Hi, We used to run few NT service checks on a standalone XP pc. Everything was fine until we switched to a new hardware firewall (ext IP and DNS details changed as well). Since then we keep getting 53 error “connect to host failed” / ”network path was not found”. 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