Allowing Internet Access to Workstations with 2003 Server network

We presently have Internet access on one computer - a DSL modem supplied by
ISP, connected to wireless router supplied by us, --then this one computer is
attached to a lan port on the router. We just added a 2003 Server and 4
additional computers this week. The server was installed and partially setup
by the supplier of the hardware. The workstations are all XP PRO.

Question is: How is the best way to setup Internet Access to all computers?
Server is not in the same room as the modem and router. I have two NIC cards
in the computer that now has Internet Access. One NIC for the lan and one
NIC for the Internet was my thinking. However, if I have the lan cable
hooked into the NIC, I cannot get on the Internet. Does this have something
to do with Gateways? The server had a gateway of 10.10.11.5 specified out of
the box, so I used the same settings to assign IP addresses to the
workstations. We are not using DHCP on the Server but DHCP is enabled on the
wireless router. A IPCONFIG /ALL on the computer with Internet indeed shows
IP address given by router on the Internet NIC and Lan settings on the other
NIC. The gateway of 10.10.11.5 on the server does not seem to be anything.
I cannot ping it from workstations but I can ping the server from
workstations. LAN communications seem to be working fine.

I'm in a little deep here but have no out here in rural America who does
server stuff. I just need to know how is the best way to do this and have it
work reliably. Thanks for suggestions and help.

C Bork

make sure you don't assign default gateway to both NICs. or posting the result of ipconfig /all may help.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"C Bork via WinServerKB.com" <u15520@uwe> wrote in message news:56f93b386a768@uwe...
We presently have Internet access on one computer - a DSL modem supplied by
ISP, connected to wireless router supplied by us, --then this one computer is
attached to a lan port on the router. We just added a 2003 Server and 4
additional computers this week. The server was installed and partially setup
by the supplier of the hardware. The workstations are all XP PRO.

Question is: How is the best way to setup Internet Access to all computers?
Server is not in the same room as the modem and router. I have two NIC cards
in the computer that now has Internet Access. One NIC for the lan and one
NIC for the Internet was my thinking. However, if I have the lan cable
hooked into the NIC, I cannot get on the Internet. Does this have something
to do with Gateways? The server had a gateway of 10.10.11.5 specified out of
the box, so I used the same settings to assign IP addresses to the
workstations. We are not using DHCP on the Server but DHCP is enabled on the
wireless router. A IPCONFIG /ALL on the computer with Internet indeed shows
IP address given by router on the Internet NIC and Lan settings on the other
NIC. The gateway of 10.10.11.5 on the server does not seem to be anything.
I cannot ping it from workstations but I can ping the server from
workstations. LAN communications seem to be working fine.

I'm in a little deep here but have no out here in rural America who does
server stuff. I just need to know how is the best way to do this and have it
work reliably. Thanks for suggestions and help.

C Bork

That doesn't make a lot of sense. What are you plugging network cards
into? Don't you have a wireless router?

If you want to use a wired network, just replace the wireless router
with a conventional wired one and plug all the machines into the LAN ports.
The router will assign the IP addresses, masks and gateways automatically.
Making the existing workstation into another router by giving it two NICs is
an unnecessary complication (and the machines on the LAN side would need to
be in a different IP subnet from the router).


C Bork via WinServerKB.com wrote:
> We presently have Internet access on one computer - a DSL modem
> supplied by ISP, connected to wireless router supplied by us, --then
> this one computer is attached to a lan port on the router. We just
> added a 2003 Server and 4 additional computers this week. The server
> was installed and partially setup by the supplier of the hardware.
> The workstations are all XP PRO.
>
> Question is: How is the best way to setup Internet Access to all
> computers? Server is not in the same room as the modem and router. I
> have two NIC cards in the computer that now has Internet Access. One
> NIC for the lan and one NIC for the Internet was my thinking.
> However, if I have the lan cable hooked into the NIC, I cannot get on
> the Internet. Does this have something to do with Gateways? The
> server had a gateway of 10.10.11.5 specified out of the box, so I
> used the same settings to assign IP addresses to the workstations.
> We are not using DHCP on the Server but DHCP is enabled on the
> wireless router. A IPCONFIG /ALL on the computer with Internet
> indeed shows IP address given by router on the Internet NIC and Lan
> settings on the other NIC. The gateway of 10.10.11.5 on the server
> does not seem to be anything. I cannot ping it from workstations but
> I can ping the server from workstations. LAN communications seem to
> be working fine.
>
> I'm in a little deep here but have no out here in rural America who
> does server stuff. I just need to know how is the best way to do
> this and have it work reliably. Thanks for suggestions and help.
>
> C Bork

We have both wired and wireless - a necessity - I finished the job tonight
and all went well. Thanks for the suggestions and help.

Bill Grant wrote:
> That doesn't make a lot of sense. What are you plugging network cards
>into? Don't you have a wireless router?
>
> If you want to use a wired network, just replace the wireless router
>with a conventional wired one and plug all the machines into the LAN ports.
>The router will assign the IP addresses, masks and gateways automatically.
>Making the existing workstation into another router by giving it two NICs is
>an unnecessary complication (and the machines on the LAN side would need to
>be in a different IP subnet from the router).
>
>> We presently have Internet access on one computer - a DSL modem
>> supplied by ISP, connected to wireless router supplied by us, --then
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>> C Bork