Network Neighborhood

A windows 2000 advanced server running active direcotry, dhcp and dns. All servers have static ip addresses. Occassionally, the 3 nt servers with static ip addresses do not appear in network neighborhood. A few hours later, they appear. Can anyone help me answer this quesiton?

 

Check the event logs on your domain controller and on the NT servers at about the time they vanish. There should be some good diagnostic information in there.

You might also purge the DNS records for the 3 that are causing problems and regenerate them.

And double-check that the IP address range for your static IPs is excluded from the DHCP scope. I'd expect other errors if that was the problem but OTOH I've seen it do some really strange things.