Ghost Subnets

[SATech]

I have a problem when viewing our domain in Network Neigborhood (not OS specific). It doesn't show all of our workstations, all the time. I've managed to isolate it to specific subnets that the problem focuses on but am at a loss at how to remedy it. The strange thing is that once in a great while those workstations magically show up, only to disappear the next day.

Something is causing clients on these subnets to pop in and out of view (mostly out). My network printers with IP addresses on one of the "ghost" subnets show up just fine. That may be because the print server they are installed on is on a "good" subnet.

Network clients all utilize TCP/IP, static IPs, WINS, and DNS. While sitting on a client workstation that resides on one of the "ghost" subnets, the network neighborhood view lists the same contents as workstations on "good" subnets (can't see clients on ghost subnets). Can anyone shed any light on this subject?

Thanks,
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S. Joseph Vergara
SVergara@Texas.net

 

[Guest_imported]

Good question...I'm experiencing the very same problem!

 

[peterve]

what OS are your clients ?
If Win9x, then disable their browser capabilities,
check if file&print sharing is enabled
then share something and check if something weird happens with that machine

Also, can you do a net view \\computername where computername is a 'ghost' computer ?
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[darkwave]

what kind of network hardware do you use?
had the same problem @ a costumers net, resulting
from continous packet collisions...

greetings from germany,

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darkwave