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re: Windows 98 Can't Login ALL OF A SUDDEN!
Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jude Nihal Fernando
(113 messages posted)
I set up a WINS server on my DC, tried pointing my DHCP the the WINS server, restarted
my Windows 98 Client, still no luck. I mean it used to work before, how come it doesn't
work now?
On Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 10:21 pm, appleoddity wrote:
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>I don't have a lot of experience joining older operating systems to 2000 or 2003
>domains.. However, from what I am reading about your error, and from the fact that
>you can not ping the domain controller by name, but you can by IP address, tells
>me that the 9x machine is having trouble resolving the netbios name...
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>I found this
>article about the issue. It appears that Win9x and NT machines have to be able
>to use NetBIOS to find the domain controller on the network.. It requires a WINS
>server and special entries in the WINS server. If this server is unavailable, they
>will not be able to contact the domain controller. I'm not sure that pinging the
>server by name from a Win9x machine confirms this though.. Because it seems to me
>that it would use DNS to resolve the name.. So possibly it is a DNS issue too...
>Any of this sound like a possibility? Please keep me posted on this.
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