Duplicate Name Exists on the Network

Ben May benmay at benmay.org
Wed Mar 22 20:30:53 UTC 2006


ahhh.... Is this the problem? :D

How do I go about changing that, I'll google it now :)

Thanks soo much

James Wilkinson wrote:
> 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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