Re: problem after adding second network card

How old are the computers? Its possible that its just going to take a
few minutes for that step to finish. I've seen it take up to 10
minutes, on a relatively new machine.

Did you re-run the CEICW? Did you check the gateway settings? Do you
have ISA installed ?

Andy


Craig Armitage wrote:
Hi,

Just a quick background on my setup.

We have a small office running SBS2003 R2 and 3 workstations on XP Pro.
Until yesterday we were running via 1 NIC in the server that was connected
to a 4 port ADSL router.

The other computers were directly connected to the router too. DHCP was
turned off in the router and the server had DHCP running. We had VPN
configured for access from home to RWW and VPN Network stuff and we have ISA
Server running for protection..

NIC1
IP 192.168.5.1
Connected to router which in turn was connected to 3 clients
DHCP Running on Server - No DHCP on router.


All was working great but we were getting upto 3000 attempts a day to access
our server from unscrupulous people. After doing a security scan (via
grc.com) i found that we had some lower level ports open to do with
printer/file sharing. I (hopefully correctly) realise this was because the
server was connecting to the internet on the same NIC as the one connected
to the clients so i couldnt just firewall these off. I remembered reading
on the server setup that it was recommended to use 2 NICS in the server, one
for local and one for internet. So i have configured the following...

NIC1 (Old Card)
IP 192.168.5.1
Connected to 8 port hub which is in turn connected to the 3 clients
DHCP Server running via server


NIC2 (New Card)
IP 192.168.7.1
Connected to router. Both IP's Hard set, no DHCP.

As you can see, the local network has not changed at all as regards to IP's
etc.. but one of the clients is now not getting past the "applying computer
settings" when booting up.
If i unplug the network cable for that machine, the computer then boots fine
and connects to the domain after ive replugged in the cable.

After the cable is in, everything is working.. internet, exchange etc... its
just the bootup that is a problem

Anyone got any idea's?

is this a corruption on group policies for this machine?

.

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