Re: W2K Laptop Networking Questions

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:55:57 -0500

"absolutezero273c" <absolutezero273c@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:EFB0E171-AB69-4DCC-8F3A-66C6AD26AED5@microsoft.com...
> another laptop. So for now they are all set static and I have reserved ip
> addressese in each subnet for each nic.

Static and Reservations don't go in the same sentence :-) They are either
Static or they are DHCP and getting it by Reservations. You sure you didn't
mean to say "Exclusions"?

Reservations mean nothing if the Client isn't using DHCP. You should be
able to set Reservations in each scope (subnet) and they would receive the
proper address eveytime they connect according to which subnet they logged
into.

But that is all pointless anyway and is not the way to handle this. They
would work perfectly fine with DHCP and there is no real reason to have to
know which IP# they have at all times. They should be using common WINS and
DNS Servers and should be accessed by machine name instead of IP#s. These
services will keep the Names accessable no matter what IP# they use. Now if
you end up with a "naming" issue then you must solve that by making sure
WINS & DNS is being done properly, but DHCP (or staic IP#s) certainly is not
the place to design the plan nor troublshoot the plan.

> I realize that I should also be able to assign 2 ip address to one nic.
But I tried
> that and had issues. My guess is it was getting hungup on which was
primary a

No, there is not a prayer that that would work and is the wrong approach. A
single nic can have multiple addresses but they must be from the same
subnet. The Primary will always be the one listed in the normal config while
all secondaries will have to be added via the additional addresses section. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
secondary and would never get to the secondary ip address which was to
represent the subnet in the remote office.
>
> I have a user who came from a different company who is telling me that
they never had any problem with these issues and it was all done seemlessly.
>
> They are not technical enough to offer ANY insight.  Yet it makes me
wonder if there is an answer to all of this or if this is simply what they
recall of the previous networking environment.
>
> I have been looking into this and haven't been able to find a solution for
this scenario.
>
>
>
>
> "serverguy" wrote:
>
> > For number 3, if you have DHCP and DNS centralized, it should be no
problem
> > logging onto the same domain from different subnets.  Actually, DHCP
doesn't
> > even need to be centralized - not sure what your problem is with this.
Are
> > you not using DHCP?
> >
> > Other than that, I would suggest some sort of colaboration software (MS
> > Sharepoint server) or maybe Citrix or a VPN solution.
> >
> > "absolutezero273c" <absolutezero273c@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:1031E17A-ACB4-46DC-B684-E8B9B4ECAB48@microsoft.com...
> > > G'Day, all.
> > >
> > > I was unable to find what I needed by googleing.  Perhaps I am
searching
> > with the wrong words and was wondering if I might get direction from
this
> > group.
> > >
> > > Issue:
> > > I have employees that go out into the field together that require the
> > ability to "hub" or network together.
> > >
> > > I had implemented a software called Multi-Network Manager which but it
> > doesn't seem to fit the bill so it has been removed from all laptops.
> > >
> > > At first I thought I could just have them use their cached network
account
> > but when we tried that it prompts some of them for a logon server.
Others
> > it does not.
> > >
> > > If I have them logon locally then they can't always browse to network
> > neighborhood and find the other computers as some tell me they have
done.
> > >
> > > We are currently trying a solution that requires a reg hack that
allows us
> > to share their network profile to their local profile.  I believe this
may
> > be solving the problem of allowing them to use items and data in their
> > network profile, but it does nothing, I believe, to relieve the
networking
> > issues.
> > >
> > > Objectives:
> > > 1. laptop users need to have access to "domain" when in the office and
the
> > "workgroup" when out of the office.
> > >
> > > 2. laptop users need access to their cached network profile for access
to
> > their software and data while they are both on the domain and in the
> > workgroup.
> > >
> > > 3. laptop users need access to 2 different subnets of the domain (main
> > office and remote office) without having to manually make the changes.
> > Also, will need to connect to each other as referred to in number 1.
> > >
> > > Is there a quick and dirty solution that would allow me to meet these
3
> > requirements?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any assistance or direction.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> >
> >
> >

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