Server name 'lost'

Syph · 11 Jul 2006 at 12:33

Background:

We have a server at work (at school) that has served music (backing tracks etc) for Music and ICT lessons. We've started using the server for storage for quick access to technician programs (undelete, AV etc) and also for videos that are used in assembly and presentations.

Problem:

The server is running Windows Server 2003 Standard SP1 and all the latest patches. It runs as a file and print server and has worked fine and has been visible on the network as 'Media-Server'. Not long back we noticed various machines could not find \\media-server, and instead we had to access it via IP.

We've find now that it is totally inaccessible as Media-Server, so we always have to access it via it's IP. We can't figure out why as it slowly went wrong. We've set up external access via No-IP which still works fine.

It's assigned an IP via DHCP, we've tried renaming it etc... it still won't pick up it's name anymore.

Any suggestions?

The_KiD · 11 Jul 2006 at 12:52

START > RUN > cmd

ipconfig /flushdns

then

ipconfig /registerdns

should sort it out

Syph · 11 Jul 2006 at 16:15

The_KiD said:
START > RUN > cmd

ipconfig /flushdns

then

ipconfig /registerdns

should sort it out

Trying now, cheers!

Curiosityx · 11 Jul 2006 at 16:38

If the above doesnt work, look first into whether you can resolve on the network.
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

H:\>nslookup
Default Server: server.domain.com
Address: *.*.*.*

>media-server
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Also try a reverse lookup from IP address to name, if you resolve it both by name and IP address DNS is working correctly.

Also see if you can browse to it from "My Network Places" if it doesnt show up there check if Wins is working on the server and that Netbios is functioning properly.

It could also be an issue with the network card on the server.