Re: NEWBIE Question

In news:faihv1hl6jjh366ap0j7mavj62emtqqd4t@xxxxxxx,
Tym <no_spam@xxxxxxxxx> stated, which I commented on below:
I've recently set up a 2003 server (standard eddition SP1) on my small
network (5 workstations all running Xp pro)

A couple of questions.

1. I have a printer on one of the workstations that I want to share,
but no-one can connect to it - what do I need to do to set it up
properly please? I've logged on to workstatn as admin and set share
paramaters, but when another ws re-connectes, it asks for log on
details, even though all ws machines are in the domain.

Did you allow access by Domain Users in the printer's share permissions and
under the security tab?

2. After a while the XP Pros seem to "loose" the network and need to
log off and reconnect to see the shared resources on the server
(printer/directories etc) - why? I've heard there is a fix but can't
find it on MSDN

Curious of your infrastructure setup. Since this is AD, are all the XPs and
DC ONLY pointing to itself for DNS in their IP properties? Just an FYI, you
cannot have any ISP DNS or any other outside DNS server that doesn't host
the AD zone name. During logon and authentication, all machines requesting
an AD service will query DNS for the resource location (the SRV records), to
find them in AD. If this there's another DNS in there that doesn't host the
zone, expect problems.

Is your domain a single label name (domain rather than the required format
of at least domain.com, domain.local, domain.tym, etc)?

Other than that, the firewall by default will allow domain communication
traffic if joined to a domain.

I assume there are no AD errors in the Event logs?

I thought I heard of a fix for something about XP and this, but I think it's
more of a setting, so not sure. At least make sure you have the latest
drivers, hofixes and updates installed, and just for the heck of it, check
the wiring to the DC is ok. You would be surprised how a simple bad plug can
cause numerous issues.


Please help, no-one in public.windows.server.general seems to want to
assist!!!

Tym

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