Slow Network and Other Issues -- W2K & XP

From: Mark Dutton (not.available_at_online)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:27:58 -0500

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!!!

.

Relevant Pages

  • Random Network Disconnects
    ... network and the only way I can seem to get it back up is to restart the box. ... Testing IpConfig - pinging the Secondary WINS server... ... DNS Host Name: itdspstest01.itd.edited.edited ... Provider Version:2 ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.dns)
  • RE: Server 2003 Network problems since IP address change
    ... Rightclick "My Computer", properties, Computer name or network identification, ... Is there any firewall running on client or server? ... Is the Primary DNS ... of zone WSW.local. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.networking)
  • Re: About DNS naming convention for Active Directory
    ... Here's what I did so far, I set up a private network consists of the ... I did an in-place upgrade of the NT4 PDC to Active Directory 2003, ... I had no DNS service at all. ... Joined the 2003 Server as a member server and that went well too. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.dns)
  • Re: Single NIC configuration with cable modem/router
    ... Internal or single network adapter configuration ... Verify the Domain Name System (DNS) pointers. ... Right-click Server Local Area Connection, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: Strange Irregular DNS/Networking Problems
    ... My network is not a complicated set up and only has one domain controller. ... problems with DNS resolving after changing DNS servers. ... I was already using the server for DHCP. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.dns)
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