SBS 2003 Needs restarting so client machine and server can access websites

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Thanks for the reply.

DHCP on the router is enabled but the address 192.168.2.2 for the server is reserved on there so it doesn't ever change.

The DNS Forwards have the DNS Servers for out ISP.

We have always had two NICs. One is outward facing for internet and then the other is the internet NIC. ... Don't have to have two but that is just how it is set up. Is there a step by step guide to changing it ?

Thanks.

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Thanks, I suppose the question is,

Will moving to just one NIC resolve the DNS issue?
If so I am happy to move, if not it seems a pointless excersize!

Thanks,

Graham.

I think it will yes. There's no reason for you to use 2 nic's in your current scenario.

yes that should stop the issues

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Ok thanks, I will give it a go on Friday as I will be on site then, not sure it is something that would work remotely!

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Would that then effectively make the touter the DHCP server rather than the server ... ?

The router already is the DHCP server from your notes above.

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It is the DHCP server for everything outside the domain, the domain is controlled by the server

In that case easiest thing to do is simply change the DNS server on the main card from 192.168.16.2 to 127.0.01 which is a loopback address and makes the server look at itself. Can you give us an IP config from one of the client pc's on the domain?

Do not use 127.0.0.1 you should be using the correct IP address not loopback

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They both work but the proper way is to use the correct IP address. If you move to multiple DCs you will need to have the IP address listed or you can see DNS issues.

The poster is using SBS so that's pretty irrelevant for this thread. Your right obviously in what your saying though.

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Just to update, I haven't forgotten this question, but I have not been able to change the configuration from 2 NIC's to 1 NIC. The plan is to do it Tuesday afternoon so will respond letting you know the answer or if we need further assistance.

Thanks,

Graham.

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Ok, so I have disabled the internal NIC. Rerun the Wizard and the computer and server are talking, I can connect to the internet on both.

It does seem to take a log time to log on but the real issue is that Outlook won't connect to exchange ... :-/ any ideas why moving to one NIc would do that?

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Check your DNS records to make sure you have the correct IP addresses listed in DNS.

Run dcdiag /fix and ipconfig /registerdns

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DNS listed on the computer are the IP of the ISP DNS servers. DNS listed on the Server is the IP of the server.

I have also just noticed that if I try to open a mapped drive from PC to server I get an error "The system has detected a possible attempt to compromise security..."

:-/

Well that is the problem the clients should NOT be pointing to the ISP for DNS they should be pointing to the DC for DNS only

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Ok! So ... I changed the DNS manually on the PC to the IP of the server .. Exchange connected and the mapped drives were happy to let me connect and logging on seemed quicker than before ...

Is setting it manually the correct way of doing it or should the server be telling the PC the DNS address ? Bearing in mind that the DHCP is now the router..

Thanks

Graham

The DHCP on the router should be configured with the IP address of the SBS server only. You must configure this in the router. I would recommend though that you use the SBS server as DHCP server but if you don't want to then you need to change DNS IPs in router DHCP server config

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This still hasn't resolved the problem. Just tried using the desktop to go to BBC site and I am getting a server not found :-(
Changing to one NIC hasn't helped.

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I don't know if this makes any difference ... but

I have tried pinging www.google.co.uk / www.bbc.co.uk / www.itv.com

sometimes bbc / itv will fail and sometimes they will work, really random, google seems to always work .. well 99% of the time I guess. Does that point in any direction?

that is all from the PC

Post ipconfig /all

Configure your DNS server wit update forwarders which is your ISP DNS servers

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773370(v=ws.10).aspx

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Sorry Dariusg, I had missed that anyone had actually replied to this!!

It has been intermittent so it still isn't resolved. I ran a number of updates on the server to see if that resolved the issue but it didn't.

I will get ipconfigs asap but may not be until next week as I can't get onto the machines until then.

Thanks for the advice here, really need to get it sorted as it is very annoying!

Graham.