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Clayton

Hello
I have an odd one...maybe?
This morning my boss called me from his visit to our UK
facility, (I am located in Ohio).
Now then, he claims that when he mapped a drive to our
facility via the VPN he could not see all of the folders
that are normally in the mapped drive.
They are on a different subnet and have DHCP running as
well, however it is not running on a server that is a
current member of this domain. (this site needs alot of
work)
Ok, now he claims that after he discovered he could not
see all of the folders he tried to statically assign DNS
to his laptop, after which the results stayed the same.
So he called me and I have found that if he mapped the
drive via IP address instead of name it produces the
expected results...all folders showing.
He can ping servers at my site via name and I can ping his
laptop by name from my site.
He is running XP Pro sp1....any ideas?
Also the server running DHCP is an NT Server...
I looked into the servers DHCP settings and our DNS
servers are not listed, so I added them...from the server
I can not ping anything within my site by name?
Also, due to corporate intervention, the firewall on that
site supplies DNS...not a server?
Thanks
 
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Clayton said:
Hello
I have an odd one...maybe?
This morning my boss called me from his visit to our UK
facility, (I am located in Ohio).
Now then, he claims that when he mapped a drive to our
facility via the VPN he could not see all of the folders
that are normally in the mapped drive.
They are on a different subnet and have DHCP running as
well, however it is not running on a server that is a
current member of this domain. (this site needs alot of
work)
Ok, now he claims that after he discovered he could not
see all of the folders he tried to statically assign DNS
to his laptop, after which the results stayed the same.
So he called me and I have found that if he mapped the
drive via IP address instead of name it produces the
expected results...all folders showing.
He can ping servers at my site via name and I can ping his
laptop by name from my site.
He is running XP Pro sp1....any ideas?
Also the server running DHCP is an NT Server...
I looked into the servers DHCP settings and our DNS
servers are not listed, so I added them...from the server
I can not ping anything within my site by name?
Also, due to corporate intervention, the firewall on that
site supplies DNS...not a server?
Thanks
Click to expand...

What a mess. Is this an AD domain or NT4?

How are you pinging, by FQDN (machinename.domain.com) or by NetBIOS name
(ping machinename)?

Ideally, especially if AD, all DNS servers must have a reference to each
other and be able to resolve EVERYTHING in the infrastructure, meaning that
if a zone exists on one DNS server in one location, than we need to have a
copy of that zone on all DNS server. If child domains, we can use child zone
delegation (or stubs if W2k3) so the parent zone DNS server will have a
reference to get to the child zone, and the child DNS server would have a
forwarder configured back to the parent.

If using WINS, install WINS in Ohio and in the UK. Set the two up as
replication partners. Clients use their own respective WINS to resolve
NetBIOS names.

If not AD or different AD forests, we can make a secondary copy of the zone
of the one in UK in Ohio, and vice-versa. This way all machines in the
infrastructure can resolve everything.

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Also the server running DHCP is an NT Server...
I looked into the servers DHCP settings and our DNS
servers are not listed, so I added them...from the server
I can not ping anything within my site by name?
Also, due to corporate intervention, the firewall on that
site supplies DNS...not a server?
Thanks
Click to expand...

Forgot to add, use your own DNS internal servers, setup the zones as I
suggested, configure a forwarder to your ISP in your DNS server properties
for efficient Internet name resolution and use a Windows machine for DHCP.

I'm assuming this is all NT4 and AD is nowhere in site. Either way, you'll
need infrastructure wide resolution to make this work. If sticking to NT4,
use WINS. But its better to configure DNS now, it will be less of a hassle
in the future if upgrading to AD.

Ace
 
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