Do Not Use MAC Address as NetBIOS Name with RAS (112548)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
This article was previously published under Q112548 SUMMARY
Do not use your physical node address as a NetBIOS name with Remote Access
Service (RAS). Use the workstation name instead.
MORE INFORMATION
The Remote Access server is a NetBIOS-level gateway. It maintains two or
more NetBIOS stacks (network transport protocols). It communicates with
the Remote Access client through an asynchronous stack over the telephone
line and it communicates with Local Area Network (LAN) servers through the
other NetBIOS stacks. To connect the remote client with the LAN, the RAS
server acts as the remote client to the LAN and acts as a LAN server to the remote client.
To do this, the RAS server must replicate (that is, add) the NetBIOS names
used by the remote client to its LAN stack(s) and add the NetBIOS names
used by a LAN server to its asynchronous stack.
If either the remote client or the LAN server has a NetBIOS application
that uses its physical node address as its NetBIOS name, the RAS server
cannot add that NetBIOS name to the other stack because the NetBIOS add
name query (command) returns with a duplicate name on the network and does
not allow it.
Use the workstation name instead.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/20/2003 |
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| Keywords: | kbnetwork KB112548 |
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