"Duplicate name exists on the network" help!

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:01:20PM -0700, Patrick wrote:
> That message is usually associated with another windows/samba machine
> having the same netbios name on the network.

	I also ran into that problem a while back and discovered that
I can not have a computer have the same name as the workgroup/domain.
That results in a conflict.  I ended up having to change the name of
the entire domain, since the computer in question had a well known
name (like my web server) and it was easier to change the name of the
workgroup.  Seems like older versions of Samba let you get away with
this.  I don't know when it started recognizing the conflict and
generating an error.

> Patrick
> 
> Albert Tsai wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone help me with this?  I'm having trouble
> > connecting my Win2k machine to samba2.2.0alpha.  I get
> > the error message, "Duplicate name exists on the
> > network" after I enter the domain name, and enter a
> > username and password.  I've followed the How-to
> > exactly.  Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  As
> > far as I know, there are no duplicate names on the
> > network (my computer's name, server's name, workgroup,
> > and the domain name are different).  The only thing I
> > do see is that the domain does exist as a seperate
> > workgroup under Network Neighborhood, but I don't know
> > if that's the problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Al Tsai
> >
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