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    Windows Server 2003 Guys I need help!

    I am currently running a small network of about 12 machines. All the machines can see each other on the network, but the only way they can see the server is if you type in the IP address through Start>Run>\\192.168.14.2 That works perfectly fine

    Well if I try and use it's netbios name (testmachine) Start>Run>\\testmachine the machines get an error as if there is no such thing.

    Is there something I have to configure?!

    Thanks,
    Adam
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    #2
    Sounds like a DNS problem. You probably need to set up a DNS server on your network so that it can resolve DNS internally.
    Originally posted by Junior Smurff
    Nevermind guys, google search works wonders!

    I don't have road rage, my car just goes faster than yours!

    Accords are for winners. And Grandmothers. But mostly winners.

    I have grown so Tired of Internet Illiteracy. Please learn proper spelling and grammar. For your sake and that of your children.

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      #3
      ^^ Correct. Make sure all the workstations have the domain controller specified as their ONLY DNS server, no secondaries (unless you have other LAN-based DNS servers that are part of Active Directory) and definitely no internet-based DNS servers. Unless you really fucked something up, DNS on the DC should be running just fine. Just make sure that you have forwarders to internet-based DNS servers set up on the DC. That way all your machines will be able to exclusively use the DC for name resolution, and still know what the fuck www.google.com is.

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        #4
        I have my network set up so that my DC is the primary DNS and the settings for my internet service are secondary and tertiary. I had to do it that way so that my workstations could log on to the domain and still access the internet. Works like a champ!
        Originally posted by Junior Smurff
        Nevermind guys, google search works wonders!

        I don't have road rage, my car just goes faster than yours!

        Accords are for winners. And Grandmothers. But mostly winners.

        I have grown so Tired of Internet Illiteracy. Please learn proper spelling and grammar. For your sake and that of your children.

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          #5
          Thanks for the tips guys.

          These computer do not need to access the internet, just the server.

          That should matter right?

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            #6
            Ok still have problems.

            I tried setting up DNS...what a bitch.

            So, all I want to be able to do is access this server using a netbios name (\\testserver) I don't need anything super special. This is SOOO easy to do with a regular XP pro machine, I have to be missing something obvious. Can this be done through WINS? UGH!

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              #7
              Originally posted by 4GAccordH22
              I have my network set up so that my DC is the primary DNS and the settings for my internet service are secondary and tertiary. I had to do it that way so that my workstations could log on to the domain and still access the internet. Works like a champ!
              You did not read my post. To set this up 100% correctly (Microsoft best practices recommends this) you MUST specify your internet DNS servers as forwarders in the DNS console on the DC. DO NOT use anything but the DC as a DNS server in your LAN connection TCP/IP settings on the workstations.

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                #8
                Ok,

                Can you clarify "internet DNS servers". These computers are not even on the internet. Is my vocab wrong? What is DC?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by AccordAnimal
                  Ok,

                  Can you clarify "internet DNS servers". These computers are not even on the internet. Is my vocab wrong? What is DC?
                  My response was towards 4GAccordH22, but internet DNS servers are just that... DNS servers accessible via the internet that are capable of fulfilling requests for name resolution on any IP on the internet either through their own tables or by using other forwarders. If you don't care about accessing the internet, then don't even worry about it.

                  DC means domain controller (specified in my first post this thread)

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