topic Troubleshooting NETBIOS registration in Operating System - OpenVMS

Troubleshooting NETBIOS registration

Rod Ahlbrandt — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:09:14 GMT

I have a VAX4200 running PATHWORKS 6.1. When I issue a NBShow nbstatus command, no registrations are shown. On my VAX4705A running PATHWORKS 6.0d the NBShow nbstatus command shows all the netbios registration information i'm expecting.

My environment is NOT using TCP/IP, nor am I a VMS guru.

What steps should I take to troubleshoot netbios?

Re: Troubleshooting NETBIOS registration

Phil.Howell — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:23:05 GMT

on a PC you can use nbtstat -R or -RR to reload
Phil

Re: Troubleshooting NETBIOS registration

Paul Nunez — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:57:33 GMT

Hi Rod,

The command:

$ nbshow nbstatus

is used to view NetBEUI transport NetBIOS names and sessions. So if your server is not configured for NetBEUI, you should get a message like "NetBEUI not configured on this node".

If the server is configured for NetBEUI and $ nbshow nbstatus doesn't produce an error, then I'm not sure what the problem could be. Might check pwrk$logs:pwrk$nbdaemon_.log for errors. Are there multiple network adapters in this system? Is the logical pwrk$netbeui_device defined?

For completeness, use:

$ nbshow knbstatus ! or
$ nbshow knb

to view TCP/IP NetBIOS names and sessions, and:

$ mc pcsa_claim_name /status !Spacing required

to get DECnet NetBIOS name information.

HTH,

Paul