oops... NetBIOS over TCP/IP ... sorry. :)
On 8/5/05, David McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DOS might need WINS? (or worse the old TCP/IP over NetBIOS, if you > have that disabled, DOS may have trouble I suspect... only a pure W2k > and newer network can handle that being disabled... which a lot of > people do to reduce network chatter) For my pptp vpn clients (even in > a ClarkConnect setup), I have to run WINS so they can successfully map > drives to the file server shares through the vpn. > > hope that helps, if not, good luck! :) > David McD > > > > On 8/5/05, Roy Vestal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a DNS server along with 2 Windows servers that are on a private > > network. I'll give the server setup below for reference. > > > > I've setup the DNS and DHCP on RHEL3. The problem I'm having is with a > > boot disk. It is a DOS based (no remarks please) diskette that runs an > > automated process for us. In the autoexec.bat it makes a drive mapping > > with net use: net use O: \\server2\share in a loop: > > > > ... > > :net > > net use O: \\server2\share > > if errorlevel 1 goto net > > ... > > > > The problem: When it tries to map this drive, it fails 8 times before it > > finally is able to map the drive. This happens from ANY network drop I > > have on this private network. And it is exactly 8 failures EVERY time. I > > cannot manually map from the DOS diskette. I've tried to manually do > > this 10 times in a row, so I have to put it in a bat file to make it loop. > > > > I've run named-checkconf and named-checkzone on my zones. All but 1 seem > > to pass. I'm not sure how to run named-checkzone on named.ca - could > > someone advise on this? > > > > Here's what I have so far: > > Server1: RHEL3 running DHCPD and NAMED. On this server I can dig and > > nslookup server2 and server3 via full qualified name or just servername. > > > > Server2: Windows 2000 Standard. 3 shares. If I put net use in a loop I > > can get to them via the DOS diskette. > > > > Server3: Windows 2003 Enterprise. 2 shares. If I put net use in a loop I > > can get to them via the DOS diskette. > > > > Any suggestions on troubleshooting this? > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
