nbtstat -A not working / -n works fine

[psycho149]

I'am trying to troubleshoot the following problem:
When I want to display the "Netbios remote name table" it returns with "HOST not found".

When I try this on the server itself the following happens:
nbtstat -n desplays the netbios local name tabel. When I try nbtstat -A -serverip- it returns a "Host not found" same when I try 127.0.0.1 instead of the serverip or if I try nbtstat -a -servername- or -localhost-.

Here some additional info:

IPCONFIG /ALL

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : HP Network Team #1
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-08-02-10-DE-87

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.77.16.17

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.77.16.254

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.77.15.28
10.16.0.7
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.77.15.28

Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.2.8.151
------------------------------------------
NBTSTAT -n

Teaming:
Node IpAddress: [10.77.16.17] Scope Id: []



NetBIOS Local Name Table



Name Type Status

---------------------------------------------

xxxN06 <00> UNIQUE Registered

xxxN06 <20> UNIQUE Registered

xxxAPP <00> GROUP Registered

xxxAPP <1E> GROUP Registered

---------------------------
NBTSTAT -A
Teaming:
Node IpAddress: [10.77.16.17] Scope Id: []



Host not found.

 

[FAM]

Just to confirm the command you are using is,

nbtstat -A 10.77.15.28

and you can ping it?

 

[psycho149]

No, I am using nbtstat -A 10.77.16.17, 10.77.15.28 is the winsserver and 10.77.16.17 is the server which doesn't list its remote netbiosname. I tried the commando's both from the local server and from a workstation. I can ping the server from the workstation and create mappings. This is working because the server registers itself in both wins and dns.

On another server I can use nbtstat -a servername and nbtstat -A ipname (of the server i'am logged on to, or remote from a workstation for that matter), but not on this particular server.

 

[psycho149]

Another thing, the server uses HP-adapterteaming configured for failover.

 

[GlenJohnson]

C:\>nbtstat -?

Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT
(NetBIOS over TCP/IP).

NBTSTAT [ [-a RemoteName] [-A IP address] [-c] [-n]
[-r] [-R] [-RR] [-s] [-S] [interval] ]

-a (adapter status) Lists the remote machine's name table given its name
-A (Adapter status) Lists the remote machine's name table given its
IP address.
-c (cache) Lists NBT's cache of remote [machine] names and their IP
addresses
-n (names) Lists local NetBIOS names.
-r (resolved) Lists names resolved by broadcast and via WINS
-R (Reload) Purges and reloads the remote cache name table
-S (Sessions) Lists sessions table with the destination IP addresses
-s (sessions) Lists sessions table converting destination IP
addresses to computer NETBIOS names.
-RR (ReleaseRefresh) Sends Name Release packets to WINs and then, starts Refr
esh
RemoteName Remote host machine name.
IP address Dotted decimal representation of the IP address.
interval Redisplays selected statistics, pausing interval seconds
between each display. Press Ctrl+C to stop redisplaying
statistics.


C:\>

You using the proper syntax?


Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting

 

[psycho149]

I'am 100% absolutely sure that I use the proper syntax. The messages you read in the first post are the output from the nbtstat command routed to a text document (nbtstat -A 10.77.16.17 > c:\nbtstata.txt). If the syntax was not correct I would have expected a command not found or a error like that.

thanks for taking the time to reply!