RE: Client computers cannot connect to domain

Hello Customer,

Thank you for posting here.

According to your description, I understand that the clients cannot get IP
address from DHCP on SBS server. If I have misunderstood the problem,
please don't hesitate to let me know.

Based on my research, I suggest we try the following steps to see if we can
resolve this issue:

1. I recommend you to use the CEICW wizard to configure the SBS server
network:

825763 How to configure Internet access in Windows Small Business Server
2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825763

2. Please try to disable windows firewall service on your SBS server, this
service will restart after you restore system.

a. Run service.msc on SBS server

b. Find Windows Firewall/Internet connection sharing (ICS) service,
double-click it

c. Select Disabled in Startup type box and click Stop button

d. Click OK to finish, then test this issue

3. Please connect your route vendor, and make sure the route will allows
UDP 67 and 68 go through different route ports

4. Please ensure the DHCP function on the router is disabled or it will
interfere with the SBS's native DHCP server.

If the issue persists, please kindly help me collect some information for
further investigation:

1. Gather the ipconfig /all on client and send the result to me.

2. Do you install ISA on your SBS server? Which version the ISA is?

3. Save application event log and system event log as evt files on client
machines and send to my mailbox: v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

4. Does the problem occur on all internal clients?

5. Try to assign static IP address on client, does the client work?

6. Gather DHCP log.
The DHCP audit logs are located by default at %windows%\System32\Dhcp.
Please mail me all logs under the DHCP folder.

Hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu(MSFT)

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| Server ipconfig /all is
|
| Windows IP Configuration
|
| Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : PISCES
| Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : NoWorries.local
| Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
| IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
| WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
| DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : NoWorries.local
|
| Ethernet adapter Server Local Area Connection:
|
| Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
| Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
| Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-E0-81-5D-48-01
| DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
| IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.7
| Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
| Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
| DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.7
| Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.7
|
|
| "GregInTrouble" wrote:
|
| > Hey, a silly thing I hope but my SBS2003 machine crashed on me - I
| > reinstalled the software, restored data from backup, and the server is
now
| > working fine again. Excepy now the client computers cannot connect to
the
| > server!!
| >
| > I use 1 NIC, connected to a router, that connects to the Internet. All
other
| > computers connect into that router too.
| >
| > The server IP is 192.168.0.7, the router IP is 192,168.0.1, and I have
set
| > the server to do DCHP and DNS, and have a DNS setting on the router to
go to
| > 192.168.0.7.
| >
| > When the client computers logon to the network they get completed
random IP
| > addresses (using ipconfig). One gets 192.168.03 though the server DCHP
is
| > configured not to hand this one out, and others get an
autoconfiguration IP
| > of 169.254.50.227.
| >
| > Any idea what is going on?
|

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