"Jeff" wrote:
: We have been in native mode for over a year with no
: problem. All DC's are Win 2k. Evrything has been great
: until 4 days ago. Last time this happened I upgraded the
: NIC driver on one of the servers and the problem went
: away. I upgraded everything and nothing changed.
Jeff...
I think you misunderstood my question. Native/Mixed mode is different than
native IP/NetBIOS over TCP/IP mode. Windows OS, prior to W2K, can only use
NetBIOS over TCP/IP, even though it says TCP/IP. Native IP is what *nix
uses unless they're running SAMBA.
Native/Mixed mode relates to the make up of your DCs (domain controllers).
Mixed mode means you have W2K/3 and NT4 DCs. Native Mode means they're all
W2K/3. Both of these can serve Win9x/ME/NT/W2K/XP clients. In Native IP
mode, ONLY W2K and above clients can communicate with the servers.
This is why I made sure I said Native IP mode and not just Native mode.
RE: your response... Do you recall, last time this happened, if you had
upgraded or installed something that required you also upgrade a NIC driver?
Servers do not normally just stop working unless something has changed
somewhere that requires and update unless it has to do with capacity, i.e.
disk space, traffic, etc.
HTH...
--
Roland Hall
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