It should and this could be a network problem. I have seen where the HDA gets the wrong IP address via the router and then things get all confused.Not disputing this... but doesn't it seem like the problem is more than just with the clients? i.e. if I am *on* the server, shouldn't "nslookup hda" return consistent results?
It may require a network restart. Happened to me twice in the past few years.