Question : Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect.

Hi,

When I try to access my server through network neighborhood or from run: \\server (1 of 2 domain controllers), I get this error: "Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect."
When I access the server with the IP address it works fine.

Any help will be appreciated.

Johan

Answer : Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect.

hi,

the error you described is VERY common when NetBios is screwed up.

open a dos prompt, and type
nbtstat -n

do this on both machines (the server you're trying to access, and the machine you're doing this from)

if you don't see at least the machine name, and the netbios domain name,
you have netbios issues.

check to make sure your machine name does not have any space in it.
make sure there aren't two machines with the same name.
you could even consider changing the computer names to something else, and see what happens.

what happens when you
ping -a servername   ?

(servername) above is the computer name with no periods, and no domain name.
just the computername of the server.

haresh