FYI,
I mentioned that I was seeing many system event log entries referring to
duplicate names.
Specifically they are from NetBT, the event ID is 4319, and the
description is: "A duplicate name has been detected on the TCP
network. The IP address of the machine that sent the message is in the
data. Use nbtstat -n in a command window to see which name is in the
Conflict state."
I find about 35 of these messages in my log, covering the last ten days
and 16 different addresses. The IP addresses are all 35.10.64.xxx, which
is the DHCP range for my building. When I do the nbtstat command, I don't
see anything in conflict. (maybe the situation resolves itself after a
timeout?)
I did find Q120752 at Microsoft that describes this error.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q120752
That article ends with "NOTE: This error message is generated in
many cases due to normal circumstances, and should not be cause for
alarm."
I think I'll ignore these messages, since I don't detect any patterns in
the systems affected.
This research also turned up this jewel:
Hmm. I had a very similar error with a Small Business Server 2000From Andy Ward at [log in to unmask]" eudora="autourl">http:[log in to unmask]
server. What was happening was that a script we had set up was logging
each user onto about 7 mapped drives when they logged on. Due to some
complete awfulness in Win2k Pro, each mapped drive counts as a user on
the license server, so the licenses run out. But, we did keep having
pop-ups on the server telling us that our server was near to the maximum
number of licenses, or had exceeded the maximum number.