Bluewookie

Hi all, Hate to have to post a topic like this, but I'm pulling my hair out with this situation. I have a WinXP Pro machine at home that has a share setup that I share throughout the house. My user account has full access control, while the other user account I setup has read only access. I have set up this share on other pc's (WinXP Home) throughout the house as a mapped network drive. I choose the option about "Connect using a different user name" when I create the share. The problem is that whenver someone starts their computer it never 'remembers' the password for this account. It's not the end of the world, but it's really annoying. I never had this problem when I was running a mixture of NT4/2000/Win98 at home.

Hello again everyone. I have an issue thats been bugging me for ages. I currently have an ATI Radeon 9600XT (128 MB). I've always had issues where when I run a dual monitor setup, the 2nd monitor always has some distortion/interference. When I say that I mean things like if I have an explorer window open, I can put it in the middle so half dipslays on each monitor, but the half on the 2nd monitor always has 'artifacts'. Like the right edge of the window always looks like it two or three vertical lines next to it, text always looks like it has artifacts to the right of it... etc. I've had the same issues before. I used to run a Radeon 8500, and had the same issues. It got to the point where at one time I had a 2nd video card. FYI, I'm only running once video card now, and I have the most recent ATI catalyst drivers, from 7/7/2004. Anyway, my current setup is P4 3.0GHze, WinXp Pro, 1024 MB RAM, Radeon 9600XT 128 MB, 19" BenQ FP951 LCD, 17" Envision EN7100e LCD. I used to run a Viewsonic 17" A70f CRT as the 2nd monitor and had the same issue as well. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone. Here's my issue, I have the following machines in my home network: 1.) WinXP Pro Desktop 2.) WinXP Home Desktop 3.) WinXP home laptop 4.) Win98 Desktop The first machine I have been using to share files from for quite some time. The second machine I newly built this past week. They both have Asus P4S800 motherboards with onboard NIC's. Shortly after setting up the new machine, I noticed that both MB's had the same MAC address. So I installed the ASUS PCI Lan driver on both machines, and now they have different MAC addresses. My issue is that now, none of my machines can get to the main machine (XP Pro) using name resolution. I can always get there by IP address, but name resolution is totally flaky now. Here is some info from the 'client' machine (this is the one that formerly had the same MAC address, but the same behavior happens from my laptop also). When I first log in, I can't use name resolution. After a nbtstat -R and a nbtstat -A, I get name resolution back, but only for a short time, 5 to 15 minutes usually. This is some info from that machine: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : ERP4 Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adap ter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0E-A6-73-6C-C6 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.212 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 204.60.203.179 66.73.20.40 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:57:20 PM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:57:20 PM C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping vader Ping request could not find host vader. Please check the name and try again. C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -r NetBIOS Names Resolution and Registration Statistics ---------------------------------------------------- Resolved By Broadcast = 0 Resolved By Name Server = 0 Registered By Broadcast = 6 Registered By Name Server = 0 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -c Local Area Connection: Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.212] Scope Id: [] No names in cache C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -R Successful purge and preload of the NBT Remote Cache Name Table. C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -A 192.168.1.213 Local Area Connection: Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.212] Scope Id: [] NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table Name Type Status --------------------------------------------- VADER <00> UNIQUE Registered MSHOME <00> GROUP Registered VADER <20> UNIQUE Registered VADER <03> UNIQUE Registered MSHOME <1E> GROUP Registered JIM <03> UNIQUE Registered MSHOME <1D> UNIQUE Registered ..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered MAC Address = 00-0C-6E-D8-1B-FE C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping vader Pinging vader [192.168.1.213] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.213: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.213: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.213: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.213: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 192.168.1.213: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping vader Ping request could not find host vader. Please check the name and try again.

Originally posted by Bluewookie: Quote: The things I did were: a.) Assigned all systems static IP addresses b.) Changed NetBIOS over TCP/IP from Auto to ON in the advanced TCP/IP tab c.) made sure Internet Connection Firewall was off on all systems. d.) ran the following commands on all systems. ipconfig /release arp -d * nbtstat -R nbtstat -RR ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /registerdns e.) restarted all systems f.) restarted router (linksys wrt54g) At that point I was able to ping/ftp by name, without doing a nbtstat -A {ip address} command. After doing these things, in this order. my issue was resolved.

I seem to have it working now, I checked it very quickly, very late last night. The things I did were: a.) Assigned all systems static IP addresses b.) Changed NetBIOS over TCP/IP from Auto to ON in the advanced TCP/IP tab c.) made sure Internet Connection Firewall was off on all systems. d.) ran the following commands on all systems. ipconfig /release arp -d * nbtstat -R nbtstat -RR ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /registerdns e.) restarted all systems f.) restarted router (linksys wrt54g) At that point I was able to ping/ftp by name, without doing a nbtstat -A {ip address} command. Hopefully this works, I will be able to tell for sure this weekend when I have some more time. Thanks for all of the help.

well, I'm still plugging away here. Anyway, what I've noticed now, that has me really concerned is this: a.) from my XP home system, I can ping other systems by IP address without any issue (pinging by name is still an issue though) b.) from my other systems though, I cannot ping that XP home system . Not even by IP address. I'm thoroughly confused. I've never seen a situation where a system can send requests but not receive any requests. EDIT: Nevermind, that was being caused because somehow the XP 'Internet Connection Firewall' got turned on.

I'll give the LMHOSTS thing a try. I'll just have to turn off DHCP to do that. Here's a little nugget from Asus website about duplicate MAC addresses. http://65.68.55.12/inetpub/ftproot/ASUS_SIS_MAC_Address_Problem.htm

Thanks, but I've tried that. in fact I've tried all of the following on both the host (XP Pro) and the client (XP home) ipconfig /dnsflush ipconfig /registerdns nbtstat -R nbtstat -RR nbtstat -A {ip address} netsh interface ip delete arpcache Another strange thing I noticed last night is that I can always ping and ftp from the client to the host using IP address, but when I tried to ping from the host to the client using the clients IP address, I got nothing. I had a ping -t running from the client at the same time, so I know the connection was working at least one way, but thats another issue altogether. One more strange thing I noticed. I have NO PROBLEM at all, pinging/ftping/etc to my XP Pro machine from my Win98 system. I didn't have to do anything at all to this system, it just worked. But both of my XP home systems are experiencing the problem. The thing I'm most curious about, is how the netbios name is purged so quickly. when I do a nbtstat -c, the last column shows the "Life" which is always starts at 600 seconds, and then decreases. While I was trying to research nbtstat, alot of the examples I saw showed that value as "-1" but I couldn't find any info anywhere about how I might go about changing that value. I appreciate all of the suggestions, but I'm totally at a loss here. I'm not sure what else I can do. I was thinking of trying some of the following: a.) Chaning the names of the XP systems b.) changing the workgroup of the XP systems c.) disabling the onboard NIC on the XP Pro system, and putting a 3Com TX100 card in there.

I tried the APR purge, I'm not sure If I did it correctly though. I used the command arp -d * I did this on both the host and client systems. I also looked through all of the other things you mentioned, and everything was as it should be. I changed the auto disconnect time on both systems, and then tried again. You might find the following log of events interesting. C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -R Successful purge and preload of the NBT Remote Cache Name Table. C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -A 192.168.1.200 Local Area Connection: Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.202] Scope Id: [] NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table Name Type Status --------------------------------------------- VADER <00> UNIQUE Registered MSHOME <00> GROUP Registered VADER <20> UNIQUE Registered VADER <03> UNIQUE Registered MSHOME <1E> GROUP Registered MSHOME <1D> UNIQUE Registered ..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered MAC Address = 00-0C-6E-D8-1B-FE C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>time /T 09:03 PM C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping vader Pinging vader [192.168.1.200] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 192.168.1.200: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -c Local Area Connection: Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.202] Scope Id: [] NetBIOS Remote Cache Name Table Name Type Host Address Life [sec] ------------------------------------------------------------ VADER <00> UNIQUE 192.168.1.200 592 VADER <20> UNIQUE 192.168.1.200 545 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>time /T 09:03 PM C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -r NetBIOS Names Resolution and Registration Statistics ---------------------------------------------------- Resolved By Broadcast = 3 Resolved By Name Server = 0 Registered By Broadcast = 6 Registered By Name Server = 0 NetBIOS Names Resolved By Broadcast --------------------------------------------- VADER <00> VADER <00> VADER <00> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -c Local Area Connection: Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.202] Scope Id: [] NetBIOS Remote Cache Name Table Name Type Host Address Life [sec] ------------------------------------------------------------ VADER <00> UNIQUE 192.168.1.200 537 VADER <20> UNIQUE 192.168.1.200 490 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>time /T 09:04 PM C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -c Local Area Connection: Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.202] Scope Id: [] NetBIOS Remote Cache Name Table Name Type Host Address Life [sec] ------------------------------------------------------------ VADER <00> UNIQUE 192.168.1.200 407 VADER <20> UNIQUE 192.168.1.200 360 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping vader Pinging vader [192.168.1.200] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.1.200: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 192.168.1.200: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>time /T 09:06 PM C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nbtstat -c Local Area Connection: Node IpAddress: [192.168.1.202] Scope Id: [] No names in cache C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>time /T 09:13 PM C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping vader Ping request could not find host vader. Please check the name and try again. C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>

The ASUS MB's have a 'hard' MAC address on the on-board nics that is the same for all MB's of that particualr make. While I was only running one of them it wasn't an issue. When I installed the 2nd one, I discovered the problem, and did a little research on the web about it. The MB ships with a PCI Lan driver, that updates the MAC address, which of course I hadn't installed until I ran into the issue. I'll try the ARP command and let you know if/how it works. Thanks.

Thanks, I'll try the things you mentioned when I go home, and let you know if any of that helped. Btw, just a few side notes: 1.) I definately didn't delete any of the hidden/admin shares 2.) This was never an issue until I added that 2nd PC with the same motherboard (ASUS P4S800) and noticed the issue that both machines had the same MAC address. I've had this network up and running with no problems, full name resolution, etc, right up until this MB issue last weekend.

As a followup, here is some info from my 'host' machine: C:\Documents and Settings\jim>ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : vader Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adap ter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-6E-D8-1B-FE Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.213 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 204.60.203.179 66.73.20.40 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:21:20 PM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:21:20 PM C:\Documents and Settings\jim>