Strange access problem

[Frederik Vandersteene]

Hi there -

we have a simpel domain with 3 DC (2 W2K3 and 1 W2K).
Lets call them DC-W2K3-1, DC-W2K3-2 and DC-W2K and then we have "any" shared
directory on them
e.g. SHARE. For the test we have Everyone Full NTFS and Full Control Share
permissions.

From the start/run prompt we can access
\\DC-W2K3-1
\\DC-W2K3-2
\\DC-W2K
and see all shares from any of the domain controllers. As might be expected.

But from
DC-W2K3-1 it is not possible to access \\DC-W2K\SHARE
DC-W2K3-2 it is not possible to access \\DC-W2K\SHARE

The error we get is a MsgBox that says :

\\DC-W2K\SHARE is not accessible. You might not have the permission to use
this network resource. Contact the administrator of this serverto find out
if you have access permissions.

Configuration could not be read from the domain controller, either because
the machine name is not available, or access is been denied.

When using \\DC-W2K.DOMAINNAME.NET\SHARE we have no problem, neither when
using the ip address.
We have not found any DNS problem.

I do hope some one finds this question interesting enough ;-)

Anyway thank you in advance for reading this far.

Frederik Vandersteene

 

[Paul Williams [MVP]]

The fact that the fully qualified name and IP address work, but the
unqualified hostname doesn't suggests a DNS issue. Check that the DNS
client settings are configured to either append the primary suffix or are
configured to use a DNS Suffix search list and the DNS name is in the suffix
search list.

Does ping work? To test this properly, run NSLOOKUP in Interactive mode,
and set the debugging on:

C:\>nslookup

set d2
hostname

Look to see if the domain name is appended to the query and that the correct
result is returned.