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Cannot Access Share via Name only I
Name: robbied69 Date: February 9, 2007 at 10:00:25 Pacific OS: XP/Server 2003 CPU/Ram: 2GHz/1GB Product: Dell
Comment:
Hi,
I am having a problem whereby I am trying to access another machine by: \\comp_name\c$ When I do so, it asks me to log in as a local administrator and asks for a password, which the previous person did not leave me. However, I can access it via the \\192.168.0.7\C$ perfectly. I have been told it is a possible DNS issue. I have used NSLookup on the ip address and it points to the correct machine. I have also used NSLookup on the machine and it points to the correct IP address.
Name: Firecodex (by firecodex) Date: February 9, 2007 at 11:55:59 Pacific
Reply:
I've seen a machine do something like this before when it didn't know what the DNS suffix was, for some reason. Entering the entire domain name on the DNS suffix line of the TCP/IP properties resolved it. Typically this is provided by the DHCP server; and it was in my situation, but for some reason this one machine wouldn't connect to servers by name until that was entered manually.
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