I would like to move a netbios alias (e.g. 'testname') from one machine to another. Seems like an easy enough thing to do: remove it from machine 'a', and add it to machine 'b'. I've done this, but all's not well in netbios land. My clients still want to talk to the old machine, and do. Do I simply have to be more patient? How patient? Is there anything that can be done to speed up the process? If I have to, I can begin assigning IP's to each netbios alias, so that if I ever want to move them, I can also move the IP. I'd really like to be able to cutover quickly to a new machine, so if that's what I have to do, I'll do that. Any advice? -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:13:42PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:> I would like to move a netbios alias (e.g. 'testname') from one machine > to another. Seems like an easy enough thing to do: remove it from > machine 'a', and add it to machine 'b'. > > I've done this, but all's not well in netbios land. My clients still > want to talk to the old machine, and do. Do I simply have to be more > patient? How patient? Is there anything that can be done to speed up > the process? > > If I have to, I can begin assigning IP's to each netbios alias, so that > if I ever want to move them, I can also move the IP. I'd really like to > be able to cutover quickly to a new machine, so if that's what I have to > do, I'll do that. > > Any advice?BTW, I should mention I'm using 3.0.5. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College
In article <20040813031342.GA20243@mtholyoke.edu>, Ron Peterson wrote:> I would like to move a netbios alias (e.g. 'testname') from one machine > to another. Seems like an easy enough thing to do: remove it from > machine 'a', and add it to machine 'b'. > > I've done this, but all's not well in netbios land. My clients still > want to talk to the old machine, and do. Do I simply have to be more > patient? How patient? Is there anything that can be done to speed up > the process? > > If I have to, I can begin assigning IP's to each netbios alias, so that > if I ever want to move them, I can also move the IP. I'd really like to > be able to cutover quickly to a new machine, so if that's what I have to > do, I'll do that. > > Any advice? >I have tried this on a couple of occasions, and it has worked quite well. Do you have wins server set up? It may be that the clients use the lmhosts file (c:\windows\lmhosts) for netbios resolution, and that's a bad thing if the IP changes. And, yes, there may also be delays on the network/clients/wins server/new alias server... Give it 10 minutes and try rebooting the client if it still fails. Sten