Event error Server ID 2505

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Server
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2505
Date: 01/15/2004
Time: 8:39:32 AM
User: N/A
Computer: GW2K30
Description:
The server could not bind to the transport \Device\NetbiosSmb because another computer on the network has the same name. The server could not start.
Data:
0000: 34 00 00 00 4...

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Server
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2505
Date: 01/15/2004
Time: 8:39:32 AM
User: N/A
Computer: GW2K30
Description:
The server could not bind to the transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{4A16E766-9404-4139-9B38-CCC802F61B1A} because another computer on the network has the same name. The server could not start.
Data:
0000: 34 00 00 00 4...

You can configure multiple network interface cards (NICs, also called network adapters) in a computer (multihomed) for use on the same network segment, but no two network adapters on the same segment in the computer can use NetBIOS. When you install NetBEUI on a multihomed computer, it violates this restriction.

In one instance the device, \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{C8AFA44C-569D-475F-8366-B6E5F91BD740}) pointed to a VMWare virtual interface. The VMWare interfaces both attempted to use a DCHP server to get IP addresses so they got them on the same segment and as explained above, they conflicted as they tried to register the same NetBIOS name. If you can identify the card by searching the registry for the GUID value (for example for the example above search for C8AFA44C-569D-475F-8366-B6E5F91BD740)
Typically this event is followed by event id 4319 from NetBT suggesting to to use the nbtstat -n command to list the names of conflicting computers. Sometimes, the computer conflicts with itself for the reasons mentioned above (multihomed computer).