SBS 2003 Misconfigured?

I apologize in advance for the length of this post, however I wanted to
furnish as much information as possible to help me solve this problem. I
have spent a great deal of time trying to solve this myself but I am at a
complete roadblock at this point. I really need to get my system up and
functional again. My SBS 2003 is setup with 1 NIC & 3 Win XP workstations. I
am using a Netopia ADSL2/2+ 4pt Managed Switch that is connected to a netgear
router. I needed the Netgear router because it has 8 ports and I have
several printers besides my 3 workstations and server that I wanted to
connect to it. My SBS 2003 Server and 3 workstations are all connected to
the router. I am having trouble not being able to print from the server to a
printer connected on one of the workstations. I get an “access denied,
unable to connect” type message. I also lose connectivity between the WS and
the server from time to time. I believe I have something misconfigured but I
cannot figure it out. Any help in getting this resolved would be much
appreciated.
The configuration of the devices is as follows:
Netopia router
DHCP “OFF”
Manually configured static IP from ISP
DNS set to ISP DNS-1 & DNS-2
Netgear FVG318 router
WAN IP set to one of the static IP’s assigned by ISP
LAN IP of router manually set to 192.168.5.2
DHCP turned off
Primary and Secondary DNS setup to my ISP’s DNS
SBS 2003 Server
Computer name is MSGSRV
IP of server is 192.168.5.109
TCP/IP is configured so that DNS point to itself
The alternate DNS is blank, should I set it to the ISP DNS-1?
Default gateway is set to router 192.168.5.2
DHCP is configured, but I manually configured all IP’s on all computers
after I started having problems.
DHCP scope 192.168.5.100 to 192.168.5.150
IP’s on Workstations was Manually configured as 192.168.5.101,
192.168.5.110, and 192.168.5.108 because DHCP will not work. Each WS has its
DNS pointed to the server local ip.
Are there a set of diagnostics I can run that will help me pinpoint my
issue? Thanks in advance.
--
Mark G
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