Tech Newsgroups: Windows Server Networking

Change from peer network to client/server??

marsha - 24 Dec 2005 3:59 AM - 4 messages

Those who have followed my other posts know that we are using a simple peer-to-peer setup right now with a single folder on one computer that is the data source that a special program keeps track of. The users add to and change the data in that folder. Naturally, ...

Fixed IP disappears from "computers near me"??

mike - 24 Dec 2005 12:54 AM - 7 messages

Fixed IP disappears from "computers near me"?? Windows 2000SP4, windows98se wired local network. Using DHCP, it works fine. DHCP is in the router. I want a fixed IP address for one of my 98se machines. When I do that, the fixed IP machine disappears from the "computers near me" ...

Group names, user names and domains

gururajan20815 - 23 Dec 2005 6:26 PM - 3 messages

Hello, I have a need to change all the user names and group names that have spaces or upper case letters in our small domain. I need to change them so that there only lower case letters and no spaces in any group name ...

disable server 2000 time service

The LANlord - 23 Dec 2005 5:44 PM - 6 messages

Hi, I just migrated my company to 2003 active directory from an NT 4 platform. I have configured the AD domain controller as the NTP server so that the network syncs time with the DC and the DC syncs time with an online ...

One or Two, Routers or Switches ?

buywheels - 23 Dec 2005 5:02 PM - 6 messages

Hi, I am not a computer professional and am quite ignorant when it comes to networking. I have a question to the group and will appreciate if some knowledgable person can give me an answer. Recently I have been assigned a task to set up a six computer lab at ...

Network slow to connect

RAM - 23 Dec 2005 12:30 PM - 4 messages

Hi, group! Good evening! I have 3 computers connected through LAN. I have Win XP laptop and 2 Win 2000 desktops and I use a hub. It is the laptop I use to connect to the internet. My problem is I cannot establish the LAN connection right after ...

Help NT 4.0 Problem

Kidem - 23 Dec 2005 12:38 AM - 2 messages

we had a server crash today, im reinstalling to do a restore but can not for the life of me get the networking to work!! I can ping 127 and the IP address of the server but not the gateway or anyother IP any ideas? ...

Problem establishing 2 way trust on Windows 2003 Domain Controller

chenain - 22 Dec 2005 10:27 PM - 5 messages

I am trying to establish a 2 way trust between 2 domains on 2 different subnets. They are both Windows 2003. I am able to ping domain controller B from Domain A and vice versa using IP and NetBios. I am even able to RDP to ...

DNS and CName records to re-map shares

Fran <> - 22 Dec 2005 9:16 PM - 2 messages

We have a growing network at one of my clients. I want to use aliases to redirect network shares for data access as we will be moving systems and upgrading and adding member servers. My thinking is to create a CName record that points to a server: ...

Internet Connection Wizard - can't create LAN connection

./dz - 22 Dec 2005 7:56 PM - 2 messages

In the past, when I've needed to create a internet connection, I would go to the 'Network and Dial-up connections' dialog --> File --> New Connection (brings up the Network Connectino Wizard; do 'Next', choose, 'Dial-up the ...

Performance of JPG horrible after recent security updates?

John - 22 Dec 2005 7:50 PM - 4 messages

I have a small network, 100MB switched, with 4 nodes. The server is Win2003EE, clients are XP Pro. A couple/three week's ago, when browsing a folder of JPG images, performance was zippy. Now, it takes 30 seconds or more for a single JPG image to come ...

Connecting to disjointed networks...

Mike - 22 Dec 2005 6:22 PM - 4 messages

I have 2 separate networks that I want to connect to a 2003 server. There are 2 nics in it & when trying to set the 2nd one with the address info, I get a message about multiple gateways being for redundancy. The server is ...

Router Issus

Shahin - 22 Dec 2005 8:37 AM - 5 messages

Hi, I have a problem with my Router. I want to connect to my computer in our office, i am useing a router at home, and this router connected to my PC, at our office our router is configured for port forwording, and this router has ...

not WHOIS but WHERE IS 10.x.x.x

wlc - 22 Dec 2005 4:21 AM - 5 messages

Hi all, lately when I run "tracert" it gives this result. 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 192.168.x.x 2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10.x.x.x ...

Browser Master error

Bob - 22 Dec 2005 1:51 AM - 4 messages

How can I fix this ? For some reason "the browser" on the win2K server is trying to get something from a lowly XP laptop out on the network. The server really should not be looking at the clients in this way. ...

At my wits' end!!

colin. - 22 Dec 2005 12:28 AM - 9 messages

I really, really need some help here, so if any of you fellows have any ideas as to what may be wrong, I would greatly appreciate it. I will try to give as detailed a description of the problem as I can. Firstly this is the ...

cluster services

chill - 21 Dec 2005 9:17 PM - 2 messages

does anybody know any interestinf article about implementing claster services in 2003 srv on the net? in interesting for dhcp server cluster , print spooler and file share... thanks ...

Can't map driver on VPN through win2k server

paquette - 21 Dec 2005 5:06 PM - 6 messages

My office machine is a Win2k server, a subdomain of a large unversity domain. Ever since SP4 I've had difficulty mapping drives through it. I did a lot of reading on this problem a few years ago and decided that ...

Server won't share

marsha - 21 Dec 2005 4:23 PM - 20 messages

I have installed a trial copy of windows 2003 server and have setup file share. I put on the data file that all of our users need on that computer and shared that folder. I set the workgroup to the same and when I use this machine on the ...

Last user login

Keith - 21 Dec 2005 2:20 PM - 3 messages

I have just upgraded a PC to Windows 2000 Pro. The PC is connected to a Novell network. In the past all I needed to do was input my username and password into the Novell login screen, and provided it was the same user ...

backup DHCP servers

gokhanbeler - 21 Dec 2005 12:31 PM - 4 messages

I got a dhcp server in each two domain controllers in a single domain. Each domain controller with a dhcp server reside in either of sites. one site has 192.168.0.0/24 network while the other site has 10.0.0.0/24. when one of the ...

1 PC, 2 Domains

Patrickm - 20 Dec 2005 7:18 PM - 4 messages

How do I set up a PC so that the user has the option to log into multiple domains (not simultaneously). So the user has multiple options in the drop down on the log in screen. ...

Cant access the internet over cable router

caterpiller - 20 Dec 2005 11:39 AM - 6 messages

I have a cable modem connected to a wireless router. I am able to connect to the internet using XP computers (wired and wireless) The problem is I am unable to connect using W2K that is wired to the router. ...

Delegacion zona DNS

Carlos - 20 Dec 2005 7:37 AM - 2 messages

Hola Buenas! Me gustaria saber los pasos para delegar una zona en un espacio DNS. Dispongo de dos dominios padre he hijo en donde cada dominio tiene que tener su propio servidor DNS, por cuestiones políticas, pero debe de ...

W2k server settings override local xp security

blackbluecat - 20 Dec 2005 3:07 AM - 5 messages

Hi, Before anything else, I'd like to apologize for the cross-post, but I honestly don't know where to post this because it touches several topics and am quite desperate. I'm working on a network consisting of a server running w2k server, 2 ...

Rapid connection loss and reconnection , very silly

MasterCollector - 19 Dec 2005 9:46 PM - 2 messages

I am running windows 2000 pro, I keep getting a status bubble for my network connection that reads " Cable unplugged " then half a second later " Connection Found" It keeps switching, even when I unplug the cable. I have restarted several times. ...

VPN networking problem

61shevy - 19 Dec 2005 9:26 PM - 6 messages

I have been having a recent problem with my remote users connecting via VPN. I have a W2K server with a single NIC which accepts VPN connections through a firewall. There is a static address pool from which incoming users receive an ...

Asynchronous logon script environment

Tom Del Rosso - 19 Dec 2005 9:22 PM - 7 messages

If synchronous logon scripts run before environment variables are set, asynchronous logon scripts aren't guaranteed to run after the environment is set up either, right? So it would seem that a script should loop until it sees values applied to the required variables. I don't think I've seen ...

ssh tunneling question

G.T. - 19 Dec 2005 9:08 PM - 3 messages

Ok, we're heavily proxied here so no direct access to NNTP servers but we do have a telnet proxy. So, using putty.exe I forward local port 4019 through my home OpenBSD server to news.dslextreme.com:119 : ...

MX record and firewall

John - 19 Dec 2005 4:27 PM - 2 messages

I am hoping someone can help me with this. Currently our office gets email from the ISP via pop3. I would like to change this and create an MX record that points to our server in the office so that our exchange server grabs the ...

Configuring Multiple gateways in Win2003 Server

Stephen M - 19 Dec 2005 3:47 PM - 6 messages

Is it possible to configure TCP/IP in Win2003Svr to route traffic at a specific IP address or range through one gateway and all other external traffic through another (default) gateway? Thanks, Steve ...

batch file to map drive from workgroup to domain drive

Mark - 19 Dec 2005 3:09 PM - 3 messages

Could you please explain a batch file that could be used from a workgroup computer to map to a domain drive? we have machines that we do not want on the domain, but need to log in to a domain network drive. ...

Adapter with DHCP AND static IPs?

danielfernandes.mail - 19 Dec 2005 12:29 PM - 6 messages

Hi there I would like to know if it's possible in any way to set an adapter to used DHCP to retrieve its IP and to add as well to the same adapter other IPs. I have tried using the netsh command to do this but adding any static ...

Mapped drive doesn't reconnect in Windows 2000.

setecastronomy - 19 Dec 2005 8:28 AM - 2 messages

In a Pc with Windows 2000 Professional I mapped a remote shared directory on drive z: I chose the Reconnect at logon option and filled user name and password for 'Connect using a different user name'. I used the following username: remote ...

Connect a laptop to a router

§Chrissi§ - 19 Dec 2005 5:14 AM - 7 messages

Hi, I have a PC and a SMC router connected to DSL modem. The PC is connected to the SMC router and it has internet. The ipconfig info is: IP Address: 192.168.1.149 subnet mask:255.255.255.0 ...

Terminating a connection to a website manually

Praveen Balla - 18 Dec 2005 4:36 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I wanted to know if there is a way of terminating a connection to a website. I know that we can view the current connections using the netstat command. Can I terminate a particular connection manually. ...