server will not see non-w2k machines

On my sbs 2000 server it will not browse to any of our XP machines. It sees
the win2k machines fine. It will ping the XP machines if you use the ip
address but not by name. Any ideas on what is wrong?

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Mark
Tue Feb 10 21:05:53 CST 2004

Pinging by netbios name or fqdn?

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"Ray Joslyn" <nospam@etg-sadi.com> wrote in message
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> On my sbs 2000 server it will not browse to any of our XP machines. It
sees
> the win2k machines fine. It will ping the XP machines if you use the ip
> address but not by name. Any ideas on what is wrong?
>
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> Ray Joslyn
> ETG Inc.
>
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Darwood
Wed Feb 11 09:16:01 CST 2004

OTTOMH XP doesn't install netbios over tcp/by default ip does it? Your DNS
setup could be flawed in which case your name resolution is falling back to
netbios methods. I would check your dns setup. check your results from using
nslookup.

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"Ray Joslyn" <nospam@etg-sadi.com> wrote in message
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> On my sbs 2000 server it will not browse to any of our XP machines. It
sees
> the win2k machines fine. It will ping the XP machines if you use the ip
> address but not by name. Any ideas on what is wrong?
>
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Ray
Thu Feb 12 11:06:44 CST 2004

I'm not sure what to do with nslookup, but when I issue the command and put
in the computer name, it spits back
Name: COMPUTERNAME.DOMAIN.LOCAL
Address: internal ip address of the computer

Is this what I should see?

Ray

"Darwood" <darrenw@nospamme.woodfordcomputers.co.uk> wrote in message
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> OTTOMH XP doesn't install netbios over tcp/by default ip does it? Your DNS
> setup could be flawed in which case your name resolution is falling back
to
> netbios methods. I would check your dns setup. check your results from
using
> nslookup.
>
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> "Ray Joslyn" <nospam@etg-sadi.com> wrote in message
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> > On my sbs 2000 server it will not browse to any of our XP machines. It
> sees
> > the win2k machines fine. It will ping the XP machines if you use the ip
> > address but not by name. Any ideas on what is wrong?
> >
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Darwood
Fri Feb 13 12:45:36 CST 2004

"Ray Joslyn" <nospam@etg-sadi.com> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure what to do with nslookup, but when I issue the command and
put
> in the computer name, it spits back
> Name: COMPUTERNAME.DOMAIN.LOCAL
> Address: internal ip address of the computer
>
> Is this what I should see?
>

Yes pretty much.
From one of the workstations type nslookup servername.
This should then use your default DNS server (should be the SBS) to lookup
the ip address of the servername (should also be the SBS).
You can try this from XP machines and 2K machines and compare your results.
You should also check what DNS server the workstations are using. It should
be your local SBS. If you need to configure your DNS setup you should
probably start with www.smallbizserver.net to get the right setup for your
configuration. You will ordinarily point all of your workstations and the
server to the SBS server for primary and secondary DNS. The DNS server
should then be configured to forward unresolved requests to your ISP.
Having just reread your original post I note that you are trying to browse
the XP machines from the server (why, out of interest?)in which case I would
definitely check the server is using itself for DNS. You should therefore
try nslookup machinename from your server too. The DNS admin tool also has 2
diagnostic tests available from the server properties - monitoring page.
Both should pass on a properly configured SBS server.
As you are having problems resolving names to ip addresses your DNS server I
would say likely causes are:
1. The incorrect DNS server is being specified. - check network properties,
ipconfig etc.
2. The DNS server does not know the answer. check with nslookup/DNS
diagnostic

As for browsing....
Make sure you have NETBIOS over TCP/IP turned on.
LAN Connection - Ploperties - TCP/IP - Ploperties - Advanced - WINS - Enable
NETBIOS over TCP/IP.