[Samba] WinXP duplicate computer name problem

Bart bartro at go.ro
Tue Dec 3 08:14:00 GMT 2002


Try in a dos-box on the troubled XP-machine (start menu -> run -> command
com) to type NET USE. Any shares with your server that are listed should be
removed, using NET USE \\computername\sharename /delete. 
This worked for me after trying without results to join a computer to a
domain.
-------Original Message-------

From: André Fadel
Date: 02 decembrie 2002 08:57:37
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] WinXP duplicate computer name problem

I've setup Samba as a PDC and it's working fine. I have one windows xp
machine already joined in the domain and working ok.
But when i tried to add another WinXP machine to the domain, i got the
error: "Could not join domain because the computer name is duplicated on
the network". I don't think those were he exact words, but that's what
it meant. Now, there is NO other computer with that name. In fact, there
is only one computer already in the domain, and they do not have the
same name. What could cause that? I followed the same procedures for
both of them, either in samba (linux) as in WinXP (workstations). I'm
out of ideas here, can anyone help me out?

Thanks a lot,

--
André Fadel
afadel at gmx.net



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