You can ping host but your cannot browse the host - you can use NSLOOKUP to resolve but you cannot browse using host name only the IP

Recently,

I was tasked with an issue that took quite a bit of thought and a little troubleshooting.  Since I do not like to read lengthy pages I will give the solution and then proceed to explain the solution:



Errors given:
Windows cannot access \\hostname











Solution 1:

open a command prompt in Administrator mode and type:

ipconfig /flushdns         <- tells the system to remove the dns entries and its cache
ipconfig /registerdns      <- tells the system to renew the entries and will register the dns as well
arp -d       <- clear any hard coded entries registered in the system


Solution 2:

remove the machine from the domain and rejoin the domain using administrator privileges






Solution 3:
Go to your DNS server and right click the zone and select update records both non/secure





Solution 4:
Setup a host record within the host file.

Solution 5:
Create a wins server and link to it
Somehow your machine was unable to authenicate and its DNS was messed up however TCP/IP is able to resolve the FQDN, but it cannot resolve the netbios name.  Solution is to do the following mentioned above.