RE: Netserver problem

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes. ping magic goes to the address I want, too.

At 10:21 PM 4/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Do you have a clean IP connection to MAGIC?  Telnet and such works
>against the Name MAGIC, without specifying the IP?
>
>
>Best Regards
>
>Fritz Hayes
>Atwater Associates
><snip>
>
>|
>| I need help with NetServer.
>|
>| I'm trying to connect to a 400 at work, from home. The connection is
>over
>| ATT Broadband Internet, so I'm definitely not in the same subnet.
>|
>| I've put an entry for the 400 in both a HOSTS file and an LMHOSTS
>table on
>| my PC. When I run
>|
>|      nbtstat -c
>|
>| I get 3 entries for the system in question.
>|
>| When I then run
>|
>|      nbtstat -a magic
>|
>| I get a 'Host not found' message. I get the same message even if I use
>the
>| IP address form
>|
>|      nbtstat -A nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
>|
>| I've asked ATT if they block NETBIOS. The fellow I spoke with says no.
>|
>| Here's the results of the commands:
>|
>| C:\WINDOWS>nbtstat -c
>|
>|
>| Node IpAddress: [24.118.96.196] Scope Id: []
>|                NetBIOS Remote Cache Name Table
>|
>|      Name              Type       Host Address    Life [sec]
>| ------------------------------------------------------------
>| MAGIC          <03>  UNIQUE      nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn      -1
>| MAGIC          <00>  UNIQUE      nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn      -1
>| MAGIC          <20>  UNIQUE      nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn      -1
>|
>| C:\WINDOWS>nbtstat -a magic
>|
>| Host not found.
>| C:\WINDOWS>nbtstat -A nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
>|
>| Host not found.
>
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