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Title: SME that dosnt go on network
Post by: hgjh4 on June 04, 2005, 11:06:22 PM

I have seen my server on the network but only after I wated 2 weeks. is there a way to get it to go on network with out wating long. I only changed the name and now it wont go on. I have SME 6.0.1
-Thanks

Title: SME that dosnt go on network
Post by: dhardy on June 05, 2005, 08:18:24 PM

You may need to restart everything to get it to show up.

The easyway is to add the following to a logon script which is run on every W2K or WXP computer ...

%windir%\system32\ipconfig.exe /flushdns
%windir%\system32\ipconfig.exe /registerdns

There is no need to run this at every logon, just once on each workstation.

Also, if you are using WINS then the WINS server will need to be stopped, its cache flushed and then restarted. WINS is sometimes used by Windows 98 and is not needed for a LAN to work properly. Its been superceded in Windows 2000 and above by DNS, although there is still support for it.

If you used the console to change the servername in SME it should have gone through correctly. Are you using SME as your DNS server for the clients?

HTH

David.