Network IP Wrong
We're running a windows domain environment with three domain controllers. If I try to rdp to a laptop on the domain by its host name I'm connected to a different host than I should be. I'm thinking the host name is pointing to an ip which is assigned to another machine. How can I correct this ? We're also running cisco wireless which is handing out IP's to the laptops ...
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Have you checked the host entries on your DNS server?
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Am I performing all these tasks on the server I'm trying to rdp from or the client ? I can't connect via IP to the laptop as I do not know the ip and a ping resolves to a different machine .....
Is your wireless used to connect these machines on the same subnet as you expect ?
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yes, they connect to 172.16.223.**
You would appear to have a DNS or HOSTS issue as that is where direction and re-direction takes place.
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thanks John, I'll have our network folks take a look at it ...
On your DNS server look in the Forward Lookup Zone for your DNS domain. Check that the hostname you're trying to RDP to is pointing at the IP you expect it to be pointing at. If they are, it's likely to be a hosts file issue. If not, it's probably DHCP not updating DNS correctly.
By Cisco wireless do you mean Meraki Cisco?
if you have it handling the DHCP it will have nothing to do with your internal wired network thus causing you your "issue" and only by coincidence the default addresses look the same.
Set your DHCP/DNS for your wireless clients to your own DHCP server unless you are taking advantage of the walled garden then in which case you shouldn't be RDP'ing to anything in it.
If you are not talking about Meraki Cisco
Do the wireless clients have any issues resolving external addresses?
if you have it handling the DHCP it will have nothing to do with your internal wired network thus causing you your "issue" and only by coincidence the default addresses look the same.
Set your DHCP/DNS for your wireless clients to your own DHCP server unless you are taking advantage of the walled garden then in which case you shouldn't be RDP'ing to anything in it.
If you are not talking about Meraki Cisco
Do the wireless clients have any issues resolving external addresses?
@jtbrown1111 - Thanks and I was happy to help.
Did any of that actually work?
Look for your: IPv4 Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DHCP Server and DNS Server
Verify the class C is the same (e.g. 192.168.0.xxx)