Duplicate Name Exists on the Network
James Wilkinson
fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 22 13:42:30 UTC 2006
Ben May wrote:
> I have an odd error on my company network, whenever a computer starts up, it
> says "there is a duplicate name on the network" or what ever that xp message
> is, but after about 3 secs it goes away and everything is working fine..
>
> I've narrowed it down to the fc4 fileserver; I've killed nearly every
> process, but it is still happening.. is this a samba problem? or is
> something running to do this,.. the network still works, its just
> frustrating..
Silly question, perhaps...
You haven't got a server with the same name as the domain/workgroup,
have you?
James.
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