NetBIOS

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Ain't it great?

I have a Win2k3 server sitting on my LAN. It can ping internal machines without any problems. However neither me or my flatmates XP boxes can ping it by hostname, his win2k lappy is fine though.

I've enabled LMHOSTS, NetBIOS and everything else i can think of, but i still can't access it by hostname. Accessing by ip is fine, but a pain.

Any ideas (short of adding an entry to my hosts file, which i really don't want to do?)

Cheers,

Mono

[Guest youngerpants]

Mono,

I'd switch off netbios... horrible protocol that broadcasts and kills off bandwidth and just have TCP/IP and File sharing as your protocols

When I have issues geting a home "type" network working, i would either give everything a static IP address (with only a few boxes, go for 192.168.0.1 as your internet gateway server with 255.255.255.0 as subnet mask, then 0.50, 0.51 etc for the other boxes) or give your gateway a fixed IP and install DNS on it (its W2K3 server right?)Also, as its W2K3, it comes installed with NOTHING, click on "Manage My Server" (or something like that) and add a few protocols etc

Any problems, IM me

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Cheers for the reply, i only forced NetBIOS to be enabled (as apposed to enabling it as a last resort) as it's only on a small LAN, and nothing else was working :)

It's also not "doing" anything as such, i just had the box to poke the new software, we have a hardware router to do the internet/NAT routing. What's also interesting is the Win2k box having no problems. I'll try installing DNS when i get home, see if it helps.

Cheers again.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Fixed it, i feel a little foolish though now i know what it was :/

(put in the wrong subnet mask :/)

Cheers anyway dude :)