Hi all, well, i'm stuck up, actually all our office pcs were working on wokrgroup, n recently we've planned to implement domain system, we made a test server, everythin worked fine, but later found out that when i pinged any machine on the network using the hostname, i got a reply but the ipaddress was totally different, no computer had that ip address, i think the request was being redirected by the firewall(that is set as our default gateway).. but pinging with the ip address works fine, infact if i enter any random name n ping i'm gettin a reply for that........ help awaited

i'd like to add further, that when i'm changing/removing the default gateway address, i'm getting the right response... (but internet stops working, thats an obvious thing)... also, all the other computers are working fine without any problems, except this machine

sounds like you dns entries are wrong. In a domain the first dc is also the dns server. Are you pointing to it or the router/isp dns servers are on the workstation? You might want to search here for proper ms dns configuration. It's been answered many times. Example of Oxymoron: Person who is pro life and anti sex education. Education is key to prevention. Prevent conception you prevent abortion. Abstinence training clearly isn't working.

thanx wanderer, well i tried everythin, even uninstalled dns service frm the dc, still the request was being routing, finally, found out that there is a prb with netting, well thanx a lot wanderer, today i'll try to resolve the issue, any further prbs, i'll post it here....... :)