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More info?)
I added a cname for dowtown, made the registry change, and restarted the
server. I try to access \\downtown but still receive the error "You were not
connected because a duplicate name exists on the network". \\downtown is a
2003 server but is not a dns server.
Any ideas?
"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@nospam.WFTX.US> wrote in message
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> ZLorca <zlorca2004@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> In WINS can there be two records for 1 IP so that I can access
>> \server1 as \\downtown also? Server1 registered and I could add a
>> static mapping for the same IP for "downtown" but when I tried to
>> access the server as \\downtown it reported a
> 281308 - Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a
> Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name:
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281308
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> Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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