Olaf,

Have you tried setting the hostname of the client in the server's hosts-file?
And maybe the networker server's hostname in the client's hosts-file?

Ingo


On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:25:07 +0100, Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski AT BROADNET DOT 
DE>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I cannot create a client on our NW 7.1.4 server, I always get a "create
>failed" and "should be valid hostname". The DNS is set up properly, both
>forward and reverse, and the server resolves both A and PTR. Any ideas?
>
>Olaf
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