Why do i get this error in event viewer all the time The server could not bind to the transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{DB93A515-88AD-4BC0-A44A-E1DA3687655F} because another computer on the network has the same name. The server could not start.

Question

About 3-4 times a day i always get this event error and i have no idea what it is The server could not bind to the transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{DB93A515-88AD-4BC0-A44A-E1DA3687655F} because another computer on the network has the same name. The server could not start. can anyone help me out and explain what this is

Answer 1

Hello @Isaiah Marcotte

Thank you for bringing this post on this community space.

I would like to provide the next post which seems very similar for what you were describing previously.... So please direct yourself down below:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/c93d3b33-bf1b-4cc3-8979-8d06d4a04653/a-duplicate-name-has-been-detected-on-the-tcp-network-the-ip-address-of-the-computer-that-sent-the?forum=winserveripamdhcpdns

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1821000-same-pc-computer-name-listed-with-2-different-ips-on-the-dhcp-server

I hope you can find this useful to overcome your concern.

Looking forward to your feedback,

Cheers,

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Answer 2

Hello there,

You can ignore this event's description, there is not a duplicate computer and the Server service is not stopped.

This can be seen when booting up, repeatedly disabling and enabling a RDMA NIC, or by a network adapter that goes offline and online for some reason. This leads to multiple SMB server service notifications about the same network interface that has already been bound to the SMB server.

You can try to update with all patches and see if that helps. You can read more about this from here
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/storage-at-microsoft/bogus-event-2505/ba-p/2883350

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