DNS on our network

dl763

dl763

dl763

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Hi All,

We have a network of about 10 desktops, 2 laptops, a few nas drives, and two servers all connected to a switch then to a router.

I'm trying to run ping servername but is coming back with unable to resolve name. I've added a DNS record on our SBS server (the other machine) pointing to the IP address. The DNS server on my machine is set as the SBS server. It works if I pink the full server.domain.local.

Pinging the IP works fine.

Any ideas?
 
Hi
Please post full ipconfig from problem machine - Sounds like the DNS Suffix is not right on the member server

Cheers
Rob
 
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Windows can get confused if it sees domains and workgroups with the same names.
If the other server is not in the domain, but has a workgroup name that matches domain.local, then you could be suffering from this.

I'd be looking at why it's not in the domain too.
 
I'm going to look at it on Monday as there is something fundamentally wrong with the network. I wish I had set it up from scratch rather than coming in after it had been done. The main downside is it isn't my primary job so I cant give it the time it needs.

The boss has been complaining to me because it too five minutes to open an email on his machine! I tried pinging it and all I got was a load of hex codes rather than his IP address!
 
C:\Users\Jon>ping mikeoffice-pc

Pinging mikeoffice-PC [fe80::4488:997b:ad30:560b%9] from fe80::6190:83fb:2bc7:1d
48%9 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from fe80::4488:997b:ad30:560b%9: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::4488:997b:ad30:560b%9: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::4488:997b:ad30:560b%9: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::4488:997b:ad30:560b%9: time<1ms

Ping statistics for fe80::4488:997b:ad30:560b%9:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\Users\Jon>


Ping is fine from the SBS server to the 2k server
 
Yup its enabled on our Vista (yuk) machines. If I had my way they'd be all XP Pro until W7.

Edit: Whats the best practice for DHCP? At the moment our router is managing that, would using the SBS be better?
 
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Is that an SBS 2008 Box? If so, don't turn IPV6 Off on it - can cause problems.

First off Why is the member server not joined to the domain? This is the root problem with your inital ping - the 2k server will not know what dns suffix to use, hence why pinging servername.domain.local works and ping server name doesn't

Rob
 
Its an 03 box. Its not a server as such, it's just a machine which runs Windows 2000 Server for our billing software. It has SQL Server on it but thats all, everything else is just as a workstation.
 
Ok, Join that Win2k box to the domain - and turn DHCP OFF on the router, let the SBS box handle DNS, DHCP, AD etc (ie let it do its job!)

;o)
 
I would do but if it brings down our billing system I will be out on my ear!

But that is what I would like to do, and that is what the vendor of the software says we should do.

Will talk to the boss when he gets back.
 
Can understand your position but if they won't let the problem get fixed then they can't complain about it

But like you say, you'd be unpopular should you kill the billing system
 
Hopefully we've got a back up of the database if it does go **** up... Whoever set this network up is a bit of a numpty!

Should I put the IP address of the router as a DNS forwarder or the IP of our ISPs DNS servers, or do I not need to?

Changing topic slightly, for a small business like this one, what would you recommend as a naming convention for the machines? At the moment they're either Accounts1 etc or someones name. I was thinking of just giving them a number which then could be used for asset tracking.

Thanks guys!!!
 
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Whoever set this network up is a bit of a numpty!
Click to expand...
- Will say nothing.... ;)

SBS runs with Wizards, try to use the wizard for everything - re-run the Internet Connection Wizard, enter your Broadband settings, and this will setup the DNS forwarders etc...

Rob
 
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