I'm trying to figure out why I can't ping several machines by name. The nameservers in the following example, are running Windows 2008 R2. The nfs servers are running Ubuntu Karmic. NFS1 and NFS2 are ...

Administrators can use ping as a troubleshooting method to test network connectivity. Businesses sometimes use tools such as Remote Desktop to perform computer maintenance or respond to trouble ...

Often when you're working on a computer, you need to connect to other computers to run software or check data on them. This could involve connecting to a business server used by your work team or ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...

Some Windows users, who use an Ethernet port in multiple computers may receive an IP address conflict Network Error – Another computer on this network has the same ...

Breaks down the five IP address classes in order to explain how they manipulate TCP/IP protocol functionality Before two or more computers can communicate with each other, a set of rules has to be in ...

This tip is excerpted from "Network troubleshooting and diagnostics," Chapter 4 of The Shortcut Guide to Network Management for the Mid-Market, written by Greg Shields and published by ...