Clinet Server prob, Am I in the right place?

[TonyScarpelli]

I work in a hospital and we have some networked medical systems which monitor patients. I'm a programmer trying to help out some of our biomedical techs trying to troubleshoot a system.

We have a database server running SQL Server 2000. We had to pull a couple of it's RAID drives to put in another server. We are now using one of it's other drives. It's been reformatted and everthing has been reinstalled including the medical software. During the installation we give the server a name: 'R4DBS'.

The server connects to medical clients running WinXP and the medical software. These have also been reformatted and everything has been reinstalled.

When the vendor's software is installed it requests the server's name and we put in R4DBS, but the client indicates that it can't find the server.

We can, however, ping the server from the client with the IP address, but can't ping using the name.

The server doesn't have a DNS, but it never did, and when it was first put in, the clients were able to connect to it.

One of the techs installed Mcaffie anti-virous 8.0 on it using the vendor's instructions. It was later uninstalled thinking that it closed some ports or something, but then after re-installing it we turned everything off, but that didn't solve the problem.

My question is, can a client just connect to a server with just it's name? If it doesn't have a DNS on it can it work that way?

Thanks.


Tony Scarpelli
Clinical Engineering Dept.
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine 04102

 

[netmanrick]

To use a Named device it's WINS(Windows Internet Naming System). You need a WINS server;it can also be the DNS server.

Rick Harris
SC Dept of Motor Vehicles
Network Operations

 

[Serbtastic]

Alternately, you can edit the hosts or lmhosts files local to the WinXP client machines.