We have three netware 6.5 servers and 1 Windows 2003 server. One of the netware servers and the windows server is on the same subnet. The other two netware servers are on different subnets each. I can ping the windows server from the two netware servers, one on the same subnet as windows and one on the other. I Cannot ping the windows server from the other netware server. The route.cfg and hostname files on the all the servers have the same entries. Please help if this makes sense.
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Ping Hostname
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BigShyBear
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Sounds like you are going in the right direction, this sounds like a routing problem. For a ping to work, the sending computer has to know the route to the receiving computer, AND the receiving computer has to know the route back to the sending computer. In this case it sounds like the Windows server does not have the route back to one of the Netware servers. If you have a router in between the 3 subnets, check the routers route table. If you are using one of your servers as the router, you need to check that servers route table.
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BigShyBear
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On the Netware server, when you run
PING WindowsServer
does the ping.nlm resolve the name to an IP address and is that IP address correct?
Check
sys:etc\resolv.cfg
needs to list your DNS server
your DNS server has to have an A record for the Windows
server
sys:etc\hosts
In Netware 4 the separation between IP address and host name had to be by spaces, NOT tab.
What Netware version?
PING WindowsServer
does the ping.nlm resolve the name to an IP address and is that IP address correct?
Check
sys:etc\resolv.cfg
needs to list your DNS server
your DNS server has to have an A record for the Windows
server
sys:etc\hosts
In Netware 4 the separation between IP address and host name had to be by spaces, NOT tab.
What Netware version?
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BigShyBear
MIS
If you can ping by IP address but not by name, the problem is the name resolution on the netware server.
When you run 'ping windowsserver' does the ping.nlm come back with a cannot resolve, or does it come back showing that it is pinging an address?
If ping.nlm does NOT resolve then we have to check why not.
Netware checks the HOSTS file first, then uses the resolve file to identify it's DNS servers. If the windowsserver name is in the hosts file, then we have to check to ensure that Netware is reading the HOSTS file.
Netware conforms to Unix standards when querying a DNS server. If the first DNS server in the list responds at all then Netware does NOT query the second DNS server. You have to make sure the first listed DNS server can resolve the windowsserver name, either by having the domain zone file, or is configured to use the DNS server that does have the zone file as a forwarder.
When you run 'ping windowsserver' does the ping.nlm come back with a cannot resolve, or does it come back showing that it is pinging an address?
If ping.nlm does NOT resolve then we have to check why not.
Netware checks the HOSTS file first, then uses the resolve file to identify it's DNS servers. If the windowsserver name is in the hosts file, then we have to check to ensure that Netware is reading the HOSTS file.
Netware conforms to Unix standards when querying a DNS server. If the first DNS server in the list responds at all then Netware does NOT query the second DNS server. You have to make sure the first listed DNS server can resolve the windowsserver name, either by having the domain zone file, or is configured to use the DNS server that does have the zone file as a forwarder.
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