Err Msg: "NETBIOS AddName Failure"
Article ID: 148987
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q148987
When you are using the Windows NT Server RemoteBoot service for Windows 95 and you receive the error message "NETBIOS AddName Failure" in the early stages of starting a remoteboot workstation, it means that you have given the workstation a NetBIOS name that is already registered on this segment of the network.
Every computer must ensure that its NetBIOS name is unique by broadcasting
the name. A conflict might occur because another computer already has this
name, or because a user is logged on under this name.
NOTE: Some network cards can be very persistent about defending their
NetBIOS names, even when a computer crashes.
Keywords: kbnetwork KB148987