Roy Vestal wrote:
Thanks Aaron, the spanning tree was the issue.
Now a follow up question: So on this same dos setup I have multiple
Windows servers with 2 nics, the first nic is on the REAL network, the
second on this private in question. If I try to do a net use g:
\\servername\share, it says "the computer name specified is not found
in the network path cannot be located". My boot process mounts one
server as a drive but manually it doesn't. I've looked through the
autoexec.bat on this and I don't see anything that would cause this.
I've even put "hosts" and "lmhosts" in a dir that's on the path to no
avail.
Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this part?
As Ryan basically pointed out, this isn't really a DNS issue it's a
Netbios issue. DOS machines don't use DNS for name resolution, they use
Netbios (Lanman) name mappings on the local network. Unfortunately, I
have very little experience with Netbios in DOS, and have little desire
to acquire any more experience in said field of "expertise". Having
said that, the basics are that it's a broadcast protocol that attempts
to locate other hosts by name. If you're not on the same broadcast
domain, you need a hard mapping (like the lmhosts). If you're with in
the same broadcast domain, it should "just work". I'd go with Ryan's
suggestion, or perhaps further experimentation / googling on the lmhosts
file.
Best of luck!
Aaron S. Joyner
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