XP and 98 Workstations - 2000 Server

[thebatman]

I have a 2000 Active Directory Server with several XP Pro workstations and a couple of Windows 98 Workstations. I have one XP Pro station that needs to share out a directory. I have shared it, and the other XP Pro stations can see it with no problem. The 98 stations can only map to it after I disconnect the XP Pro station from the domain and then re-add it to the domain. Then the rest of the day they can get into the shared drive. After about 24 hours, the 98 machines can no longer get in and I have to go thru the same process again.

Any ideas?

 

[Seaspray0]

The 98 machines use WINS resolution (netbios over tcp/ip). The XP machines can use WINS or DNS resolution but primarily like DNS. Do you have a WINS service running?

When the 98 machines can't access the share, can they ping the ip address of the XP machine providing the share? If yes, then you most likely have a resolution problem.

 

[thebatman]

I don't believe that I have WINS running, but how can I check. This is a constant problem. They all log into the 2000 Server, and my script is mapping by and IP address - like Net use f: \\192.168.1.24\shared