DNS Registration Problem [Any Tools for Configuring a Network?]

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From: Charles Law (blank_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:50:58 -0000

I see from the myriad of reports here that networking is fraught with
problems. Does anyone know of a decent tool (GUI, not command-line) that can
be run on a server and client to correct network problems?

It seems to me that it should be possible to run a utility on the server and
have it report all the anomalies and correct most of them. For example, I
have a client that does not have a DNS registered on the server. Try as I
might I cannot get it to happen. I know the IP address and I know the DN, so
why can't I just tell some program and have it do it?

I fully accept that networking is complicated, and that there are numerous
configurations, but for that reason, why leave it to the likes of me to try
to fix it when a program could do it so much more reliably? I have looked at
the range of command-line tools supplied and they all have different syntax
and require an in-depth knowledge of networking and its terminology. All I
want is to get two machines talking to each other.

You can probably tell that I am a bit frustrated ;-) and I do actually know
a bit about networking, but clearly not enough to get this working?

My problem, incidentally, relates to a Windows 2003 Server and an XP Pro
client. The client can map drives on the server, but not vice-versa. My
laptop works fine in both directions, but the server seems to know its DNS
suffix. Not so the desktop client. I have read about forward and reverse
lookups, and I've got some of those, but goodness knows whether they're
right. How would I know?

The client fails NetDiag on the DNS Test with "The DNS registration for
'MyClient.MyDomain.local' is incorrect on all DNS servers. How do I fix
that?

It also fails on the DC List Test with "You don't have access to DsBind to
myserver (192.168.0.24). [ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED]"

The Trust Relationship test fails with "Don't have access to test your
domain sid for domain 'MyDomain'" and "Secure channel to domain 'MyDomain'
is broken. [ERROR_NO_LOGON_SERVERS]". What's all that about?

The server passes all NetDiag and DCDiag tests.

Any ideas, anyone?

Charles

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