2000 RRAS and Win98

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Nik

I am just checking something really....

Am I right in thinking that if I have a networked Win98
machine dialing into a 2000 RRAS server and domain, I will
have to have two hardware profiles on the 98 client e.g.

1 ethernet card enabled (local network enabled)
2 ethernet card disabled (dialup to 2000 network)

I can dial into the 2000 server just fine and get a valid
IP address and Default Gateway but when I try and ping
anything on the dialed-up network I get destination host
unreachable (this is without having tried the hardware
profile idea).

Any ideas folks?
 
No, you shouldn't need to do that. It should be able to handle having
both connections active.

It could be just a name resolution or credentials problem. First up,
check that you can ping the RRAS server by its IP address. If this works,
your dialup connection is working. If you can ping by IP but not by name,
you have a name resolution problem. If the LAN is not running WINS, you may
need to add an LMHOSTS file to the client with entries for the LAN machines
you need to contact by name.

If the LAN is a domain, the client will need credentials which are valid
in the domain to access domain resources.
 
Of course all this fails if the local NIC and the "received" IP are in the
same IP subnet. If the local NIC is say 192.168.1.n/24 and the RRAS server
issues an IP in the same 192.168.1 subnet, nothing will ever go across the
link to the RRAS server.
 
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