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July 28th 08, 01:19 PM
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NetBIOS name resolution
Vista Home Edition 32 bit SP1 Laptop, Windows XP SP2 or 3, Home Media Server,
I have had home media server running for several months, with three XP clients, and this has been working fine. These systems are all in the same workgroup, and on the same hub, and in the same subnet. I tried to add the Home Server Console application to a new Vista Laptop and found the following problem. The software install fails saying the server didn't respond. Basic ping fails as did http://myServerName The server name was resolving to that of an external web site (that sold server products). I could see the server in the networks map window on Vista, I could share the disks on it, so this was a surprise. The UNC name was not returned in an NBTSTAT command. To work around this I added an entry to the lmhost file. I also noted that the network interface did not show the DNS suffix of my ISP, yet my XP clients did. So I added this manually. After this, name resolution worked OK and the software install worked fine. Is there something different about the way Vista Home Edition resolves names? I was very surprised to see it resolve the name MyServer to a FQDN that was only similar not even the same. I disabled Norton Internet Security Centre to eliminate any odd behaviour there, but made no difference. If this problem is a new one, my work around may save someone hours of troubleshooting. -- Cheers Tim Banks 
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July 28th 08, 03:39 PM
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NetBIOS name resolution
Have you enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP? Or post the result of ipconfig /all
here may help. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "TimBo" wrote in message ... Vista Home Edition 32 bit SP1 Laptop, Windows XP SP2 or 3, Home Media Server, I have had home media server running for several months, with three XP clients, and this has been working fine. These systems are all in the same workgroup, and on the same hub, and in the same subnet. I tried to add the Home Server Console application to a new Vista Laptop and found the following problem. The software install fails saying the server didn't respond. Basic ping fails as did http://myServerName The server name was resolving to that of an external web site (that sold server products). I could see the server in the networks map window on Vista, I could share the disks on it, so this was a surprise. The UNC name was not returned in an NBTSTAT command. To work around this I added an entry to the lmhost file. I also noted that the network interface did not show the DNS suffix of my ISP, yet my XP clients did. So I added this manually. After this, name resolution worked OK and the software install worked fine. Is there something different about the way Vista Home Edition resolves names? I was very surprised to see it resolve the name MyServer to a FQDN that was only similar not even the same. I disabled Norton Internet Security Centre to eliminate any odd behaviour there, but made no difference. If this problem is a new one, my work around may save someone hours of troubleshooting. -- Cheers Tim Banks
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July 28th 08, 05:07 PM
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NetBIOS name resolution
yes, 1st thing I checked (should have said) but without that the file share
wouldn't work would it? -- Cheers Tim Banks "Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote: Have you enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP? Or post the result of ipconfig /all here may help. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "TimBo" wrote in message ... Vista Home Edition 32 bit SP1 Laptop, Windows XP SP2 or 3, Home Media Server, I have had home media server running for several months, with three XP clients, and this has been working fine. These systems are all in the same workgroup, and on the same hub, and in the same subnet. I tried to add the Home Server Console application to a new Vista Laptop and found the following problem. The software install fails saying the server didn't respond. Basic ping fails as did http://myServerName The server name was resolving to that of an external web site (that sold server products). I could see the server in the networks map window on Vista, I could share the disks on it, so this was a surprise. The UNC name was not returned in an NBTSTAT command. To work around this I added an entry to the lmhost file. I also noted that the network interface did not show the DNS suffix of my ISP, yet my XP clients did. So I added this manually. After this, name resolution worked OK and the software install worked fine. Is there something different about the way Vista Home Edition resolves names? I was very surprised to see it resolve the name MyServer to a FQDN that was only similar not even the same. I disabled Norton Internet Security Centre to eliminate any odd behaviour there, but made no difference. If this problem is a new one, my work around may save someone hours of troubleshooting. -- Cheers Tim Banks
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July 28th 08, 11:05 PM
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NetBIOS name resolution
Do you receive any errors if using net view command?
-- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "TimBo" wrote in message ... yes, 1st thing I checked (should have said) but without that the file share wouldn't work would it? -- Cheers Tim Banks "Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote: Have you enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP? Or post the result of ipconfig /all here may help. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "TimBo" wrote in message ... Vista Home Edition 32 bit SP1 Laptop, Windows XP SP2 or 3, Home Media Server, I have had home media server running for several months, with three XP clients, and this has been working fine. These systems are all in the same workgroup, and on the same hub, and in the same subnet. I tried to add the Home Server Console application to a new Vista Laptop and found the following problem. The software install fails saying the server didn't respond. Basic ping fails as did http://myServerName The server name was resolving to that of an external web site (that sold server products). I could see the server in the networks map window on Vista, I could share the disks on it, so this was a surprise. The UNC name was not returned in an NBTSTAT command. To work around this I added an entry to the lmhost file. I also noted that the network interface did not show the DNS suffix of my ISP, yet my XP clients did. So I added this manually. After this, name resolution worked OK and the software install worked fine. Is there something different about the way Vista Home Edition resolves names? I was very surprised to see it resolve the name MyServer to a FQDN that was only similar not even the same. I disabled Norton Internet Security Centre to eliminate any odd behaviour there, but made no difference. If this problem is a new one, my work around may save someone hours of troubleshooting. -- Cheers Tim Banks
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