Troubleshooting NETBIOS registration

[Rod Ahlbrandt]

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?

[Phil.Howell]

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

[Paul Nunez]

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