DNS

[Jason]

For some reason I can not see all of my computer names in
My Network Places in the Domain. Not sure if this is a
DNS problem or not?????? Has anyone ever seen this and if
so how can I fix it or has any one seen any white papers
on this problem?

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

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For some reason I can not see all of my computer names in
My Network Places in the Domain. Not sure if this is a
DNS problem or not?????? Has anyone ever seen this and if
so how can I fix it or has any one seen any white papers
on this problem?

Network Neighborhood uses NetBIOS, for computers to be in Nethood, you need
NetBIOS over TCP/IP, WINS, or NetBEUI (which is not really supported
anymore)

Check your TCP/IP settings on the WINS tab to see if NetBIOS is enabled over
TCP/IP

Personally, I moving away from Nethood and I now publish my shares in Active
Directory by the FQDN which IMO is more dependable anyway.

 

[Tom Reyntjens]

-----Original Message-----
For some reason I can not see all of my computer names in
My Network Places in the Domain. Not sure if this is a
DNS problem or not?????? Has anyone ever seen this and if
so how can I fix it or has any one seen any white papers
on this problem?
.

No, this is not a DNS problem. Network Neighborhood uses
NetBios (as Kevin already mentioned). It is handled by the
Computer Browser service. There could be several reasons
why not all computers show up in Network neighborhood :
- your workgroup or domain spans several IP-subnets, and
you don't use WINS or correctly maintained LMHosts files
(though I would strongly suggest using WINS instead of
LMHOSTS).
- you don't have potential browsers in all subnets
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Brows
er\Parameters\MaintainServerList = True or Auto)
- missing machines aren't servers (eg. W9x machines
without File&Print Sharing)
- naming resolution issues

Check : Q188305