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Mark Dutton
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      01-18-2005, 04:27 PM
I would like to think I have a pretty simple network with one W2K server and
about 10 XP Pro workstations and no remote locations. When I first
installed everything were went smoothly. Now after a few months I seem to
have nothing but problems. Things like logins can sometimes be extremely
slow, loading word and excell files takes for ever to load, and waht would
seem like simple things take forerver. I get errors messages in worstations
logs that the domain can't be found and other various messages. their Even
surfung a newwork mapeed drive can take a few minutes to browse. At this
point I don't know if it server or workstation related. All seems network
related.

I have begin to questioned my orginal instattion of AD and DNS. The more I
have read here the more I belive everyhting is somehow realted to this, but
the more I read about AD and DNS the more it clouds things. I clearer
understanding of AD and DNS. Maybe I am putting to much into this.

Here is what I did and what I have when I installed W2K:

The Server: srv01 192.168.0.10 running DHCP (no WINS)
Worksations 192.168.0.100-150
A Linksys Router connected to broadband cable doing NAT 192.168.0.1
DNS mydomain.local
We have a domain for our company "mydomain.com", so in the setup for AD I
used mydomain.local.
Server is DNS looks like: srv01.mydomain.local.

One thing I noticed with a couple of artciles here is I don't belive I have
our DNS forwarded and pointed to our ISP. The workstations get their DNS (I
am using the address from the cable provider) addresses from the DHCP. I
never could get the workstations to "browse" the net unless I did it this
way. Now I feel I may have caused my current problems. If I do need to do
this, how do I?

I don't feel that it is an sort of hardware issue.. my machines consist of
2.6-.3.0 P4's with 512MB-1GB of RAM. Server is also a killer box and runs
great

Any suggestions on where to start or some sort of a direction wouldl be
GREATLY appreicated!

I am a one man IT department and I just don't have anyone to bounce things
off of.

Thanks!!!



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Doug Sherman [MVP]
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      01-18-2005, 04:50 PM
You have correctly identified the problem. You must configure the
workstations to point to 192.168.0.10 for DNS. The server also must point
only to itself for DNS.

In order to enable resolution of Internet names, you need to configure
Forwarders:

On the server, open the DNS console. Right click on the server and select
Properties. Click the Forwarders tab, check the Enable forwarders box,
enter the IP address of your ISP's DNS server and click Add. If these
options are not avalaible, expand the Forward Lookup Zones and delete the
"." zone.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Mark Dutton" <not.available@online> wrote in message
news:uWnn$LY$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I would like to think I have a pretty simple network with one W2K server

and
> about 10 XP Pro workstations and no remote locations. When I first
> installed everything were went smoothly. Now after a few months I seem to
> have nothing but problems. Things like logins can sometimes be extremely
> slow, loading word and excell files takes for ever to load, and waht would
> seem like simple things take forerver. I get errors messages in

worstations
> logs that the domain can't be found and other various messages. their Even
> surfung a newwork mapeed drive can take a few minutes to browse. At this
> point I don't know if it server or workstation related. All seems network
> related.
>
> I have begin to questioned my orginal instattion of AD and DNS. The more

I
> have read here the more I belive everyhting is somehow realted to this,

but
> the more I read about AD and DNS the more it clouds things. I clearer
> understanding of AD and DNS. Maybe I am putting to much into this.
>
> Here is what I did and what I have when I installed W2K:
>
> The Server: srv01 192.168.0.10 running DHCP (no WINS)
> Worksations 192.168.0.100-150
> A Linksys Router connected to broadband cable doing NAT 192.168.0.1
> DNS mydomain.local
> We have a domain for our company "mydomain.com", so in the setup for AD I
> used mydomain.local.
> Server is DNS looks like: srv01.mydomain.local.
>
> One thing I noticed with a couple of artciles here is I don't belive I

have
> our DNS forwarded and pointed to our ISP. The workstations get their DNS

(I
> am using the address from the cable provider) addresses from the DHCP. I
> never could get the workstations to "browse" the net unless I did it this
> way. Now I feel I may have caused my current problems. If I do need to

do
> this, how do I?
>
> I don't feel that it is an sort of hardware issue.. my machines consist

of
> 2.6-.3.0 P4's with 512MB-1GB of RAM. Server is also a killer box and runs
> great
>
> Any suggestions on where to start or some sort of a direction wouldl be
> GREATLY appreicated!
>
> I am a one man IT department and I just don't have anyone to bounce things
> off of.
>
> Thanks!!!
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>
>
>



 
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Mark Dutton
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      01-18-2005, 05:40 PM
Thanks Doug! I thought I was losing my mind.. what little I have left :-)

OK.. made those changes and changes to DHCP against the workstations..

How can I tell that I have the server pointing to itself in DNS (where do I
look?)

Thanks for the help!!!

Mark

"Doug Sherman [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%23UNY2YY$(E-Mail Removed)...
> You have correctly identified the problem. You must configure the
> workstations to point to 192.168.0.10 for DNS. The server also must point
> only to itself for DNS.
>
> In order to enable resolution of Internet names, you need to configure
> Forwarders:
>
> On the server, open the DNS console. Right click on the server and select
> Properties. Click the Forwarders tab, check the Enable forwarders box,
> enter the IP address of your ISP's DNS server and click Add. If these
> options are not avalaible, expand the Forward Lookup Zones and delete the
> "." zone.
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "Mark Dutton" <not.available@online> wrote in message
> news:uWnn$LY$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I would like to think I have a pretty simple network with one W2K server

> and
>> about 10 XP Pro workstations and no remote locations. When I first
>> installed everything were went smoothly. Now after a few months I seem
>> to
>> have nothing but problems. Things like logins can sometimes be extremely
>> slow, loading word and excell files takes for ever to load, and waht
>> would
>> seem like simple things take forerver. I get errors messages in

> worstations
>> logs that the domain can't be found and other various messages. their
>> Even
>> surfung a newwork mapeed drive can take a few minutes to browse. At this
>> point I don't know if it server or workstation related. All seems network
>> related.
>>
>> I have begin to questioned my orginal instattion of AD and DNS. The more

> I
>> have read here the more I belive everyhting is somehow realted to this,

> but
>> the more I read about AD and DNS the more it clouds things. I clearer
>> understanding of AD and DNS. Maybe I am putting to much into this.
>>
>> Here is what I did and what I have when I installed W2K:
>>
>> The Server: srv01 192.168.0.10 running DHCP (no WINS)
>> Worksations 192.168.0.100-150
>> A Linksys Router connected to broadband cable doing NAT 192.168.0.1
>> DNS mydomain.local
>> We have a domain for our company "mydomain.com", so in the setup for AD I
>> used mydomain.local.
>> Server is DNS looks like: srv01.mydomain.local.
>>
>> One thing I noticed with a couple of artciles here is I don't belive I

> have
>> our DNS forwarded and pointed to our ISP. The workstations get their DNS

> (I
>> am using the address from the cable provider) addresses from the DHCP. I
>> never could get the workstations to "browse" the net unless I did it this
>> way. Now I feel I may have caused my current problems. If I do need to

> do
>> this, how do I?
>>
>> I don't feel that it is an sort of hardware issue.. my machines consist

> of
>> 2.6-.3.0 P4's with 512MB-1GB of RAM. Server is also a killer box and
>> runs
>> great
>>
>> Any suggestions on where to start or some sort of a direction wouldl be
>> GREATLY appreicated!
>>
>> I am a one man IT department and I just don't have anyone to bounce
>> things
>> off of.
>>
>> Thanks!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

>
>



 
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Doug Sherman [MVP]
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      01-18-2005, 07:56 PM
On the server, Right click My Network Places and select Properties. Right
click the Local Area Connection and select Properties. Highlight TCP/IP and
click the Properties button. Make sure that the server has a manually
entered IP address - this address or 127.0.0.1 should also be entered in the
Preferred DNS server line.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Mark Dutton" <not.available@online> wrote in message
news:%23Wdao0Y$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks Doug! I thought I was losing my mind.. what little I have left

:-)
>
> OK.. made those changes and changes to DHCP against the workstations..
>
> How can I tell that I have the server pointing to itself in DNS (where do

I
> look?)
>
> Thanks for the help!!!
>
> Mark
>
> "Doug Sherman [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%23UNY2YY$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > You have correctly identified the problem. You must configure the
> > workstations to point to 192.168.0.10 for DNS. The server also must

point
> > only to itself for DNS.
> >
> > In order to enable resolution of Internet names, you need to configure
> > Forwarders:
> >
> > On the server, open the DNS console. Right click on the server and

select
> > Properties. Click the Forwarders tab, check the Enable forwarders box,
> > enter the IP address of your ISP's DNS server and click Add. If these
> > options are not avalaible, expand the Forward Lookup Zones and delete

the
> > "." zone.
> >
> > Doug Sherman
> > MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
> >
> > "Mark Dutton" <not.available@online> wrote in message
> > news:uWnn$LY$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I would like to think I have a pretty simple network with one W2K

server
> > and
> >> about 10 XP Pro workstations and no remote locations. When I first
> >> installed everything were went smoothly. Now after a few months I seem
> >> to
> >> have nothing but problems. Things like logins can sometimes be

extremely
> >> slow, loading word and excell files takes for ever to load, and waht
> >> would
> >> seem like simple things take forerver. I get errors messages in

> > worstations
> >> logs that the domain can't be found and other various messages. their
> >> Even
> >> surfung a newwork mapeed drive can take a few minutes to browse. At

this
> >> point I don't know if it server or workstation related. All seems

network
> >> related.
> >>
> >> I have begin to questioned my orginal instattion of AD and DNS. The

more
> > I
> >> have read here the more I belive everyhting is somehow realted to this,

> > but
> >> the more I read about AD and DNS the more it clouds things. I clearer
> >> understanding of AD and DNS. Maybe I am putting to much into this.
> >>
> >> Here is what I did and what I have when I installed W2K:
> >>
> >> The Server: srv01 192.168.0.10 running DHCP (no WINS)
> >> Worksations 192.168.0.100-150
> >> A Linksys Router connected to broadband cable doing NAT 192.168.0.1
> >> DNS mydomain.local
> >> We have a domain for our company "mydomain.com", so in the setup for AD

I
> >> used mydomain.local.
> >> Server is DNS looks like: srv01.mydomain.local.
> >>
> >> One thing I noticed with a couple of artciles here is I don't belive I

> > have
> >> our DNS forwarded and pointed to our ISP. The workstations get their

DNS
> > (I
> >> am using the address from the cable provider) addresses from the DHCP.

I
> >> never could get the workstations to "browse" the net unless I did it

this
> >> way. Now I feel I may have caused my current problems. If I do need

to
> > do
> >> this, how do I?
> >>
> >> I don't feel that it is an sort of hardware issue.. my machines

consist
> > of
> >> 2.6-.3.0 P4's with 512MB-1GB of RAM. Server is also a killer box and
> >> runs
> >> great
> >>
> >> Any suggestions on where to start or some sort of a direction wouldl be
> >> GREATLY appreicated!
> >>
> >> I am a one man IT department and I just don't have anyone to bounce
> >> things
> >> off of.
> >>
> >> Thanks!!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> .
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>

> >
> >

>
>



 
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