Re: Need Help with Win2k Server Issue

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Make sure the server points to itself for DNS and that the DNS forward
lookup zone has ISP's DNS servers listed.

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"Chuck Mueller" wrote:
| had a server crash at a customers. I fixed the hardware and reloaded the
| Win2k ServerOS from scratch, setup the domain again. Its a single server
| network with about 50 clients. The server is working fine, running Active
| Directory, DNS, DHCP, and WINS. Clients logging in OK and ipconfig on the
| client shows that all the IPs are correct and the same for the DHCP, DNS,
and
| WINS. Gateway is correct for the router IP address. Router config shows an
| active connection to Verizon DSL line with outside IP and DNS addresses,
but
| NONE of the clients can get an internet conn including the server. In
| experimenting with the router, I can get out to the internet only if I
allow
| the router to be the DHCP server and use DHCP on the client. As soon as I
| change the router to disable DHCP, and return the server to DHCP function,
| even with the clients getting good DHCP addresses, no internet connection.
| Obviously I dont want the router being the DHCP server as that is the job
of
| the server. I have eliminated a problem with the router as being the cause
by
| trying (3) different routers, all with the same results. It would seem to
be
| something in the server causing the block. Is there anything that I could
| have missed, maybe installed by default in Win2k Server, that would be
| preventing an internet connection with the server on the network? Any
ideas
| would be appreciated. Chuck Mueller. ChuckM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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