Re: Slow Network and Other Issues -- W2K & XP

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From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:56:22 -0500

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$EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Thanks Doug! I thought I was losing my mind.. what little I have left
:-)
>
> OK.. made those changes and changes to DHCP against the workstations..
>
> How can I tell that I have the server pointing to itself in DNS (where do
I
> look?)
>
> Thanks for the help!!!
>
> Mark
>
> "Doug Sherman [MVP]" <dsherman@nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:%23UNY2YY$EHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > 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$LY$EHA.3368@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >> 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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