Same IP Different Name - DNS

[idsi]

I have a dns entry for a computer named xyz and when in type net view xyz on command line i could see the shares. I want to have another name say abcd referencing the same ip address, so that when i type net view abcd i could see the same share which i see on xyz. Its windows 2003 platform.

Currently for my testing purpose i created an entry named abcd as a host entry with the same ip of xyz but when i do net view i get System error 52. Also i tried doing the same with CNAME and i get the same error.

In short my question is how to access with same ip address and with different names ?

Appreciate if some body can give me some guidelines on the question.

Thanks
idsi

 

[ShackDaddy]

The 'net view' command is really a NetBIOS operation, not a native TCP/IP operation, so it's relationship with DNS is shaky. It was built to be used with either WINS or the NetBIOS broadcast environment. Typically whatever you put in the '\\servername' section of the command has to match what the server has in its own NetBIOS name, so there can usually only be one name that a server answers NetBIOS queries on.

Now this general rule applied in all cases with Windows 95/98/NT, but has changed in some ways with 2000 and XP. If you have NetBIOS turned on on your target server, you might try turning it off (in the advanced settings for the adapter) so that it is forced to deal with whatever name you choose to connect to it on instead of making its local NetBIOS name the THE BIG ONE. I've gotten a little foggy on some of this over the last couple of NT-less years, but this should be mostly right.

ShackDaddy

 

[idsi]

Thanks for the update.
By yesterday evening i was able to figure out the problem.
I had to do some registry changes to solve my problem. The below link helped me.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281308

Thanks again