You can use the troubleshooting techniques
if you have trouble finding IBM® i NetServer on the network.
If you experience problems when trying to find IBM i NetServer on the network,
you can take several steps to resolve the problems:
- Ping the IBM i NetServer server name. Pinging the IBM i NetServer server
name reloads the IBM i NetServer IP
address into the PC client cache file.
- Verify that you are using the correct system
name for IBM i NetServer. The QSYSOPR message queue specifies the correct IBM i NetServer system name.
- Verify that you have configured your PC client
to properly resolve the IBM i NetServer system name
to an Internet Protocol (IP) address. Configure your PC
client to resolve the IBM i NetServer system name
to an IP address in one of the following ways:
- Map the IBM i NetServer system name
to its IP address by using the Domain Name System (DNS).
- Map the IBM i NetServer system name
to its IP address by using the Windows Internet
Naming Service (WINS).
- Map the IBM i NetServer system name
to its IP address by adding an entry to the LMHOSTS file.