Strange behaviour

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RSW

Hi,

I have a windows 2000 server (was SP2, now SP4). it has ISA 2000 (SP2)
installed.
It has redirected folders set up, shared internet and a shared printer.
Right now, the clients can log on and use the internet, but the printer and
documents are not available. On the server, the shares for the redirected
folders vanish !! There are three shares, and by the time I have added the
third share, the first one has gone!! No "little hand" icon, nothing to see
from the clients, just as if it's been turned off again. I'm thinking this
is a symptom rather than an actual fault, since the event log shows things
like "no domain controller, no DNS server etc (it's all of those things!).
And it crashed completely over the new year break, no display output, not
response to anything other than the reset button. After the restart, the
event log has no events after the about 4pm on the 1st.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might look for the cause?


RSW
 
It sounds like there's a whole bunch of issue here - and DNS is one of them.

Also, it's not recommended to run ISA on a DC (unless it's SBS).

Start off by disabling ISA and running netdiag /test:dns

If this test fails, fix DNS.

You'll need to ensure that this DC is pointing to an internal DNS server
(ideally with the same domain name as the AD) and that this domain supports
dynamic updates. You'll also need to ensure the default gateway is on the
external NIC, and for seriously less problems I wouldn't configure public
DNS on the external NIC -point in and refer out. Not the best ISA setup,
but one that works ;-)

--

Paul Williams

http://www.msresource.net/
http://forums.msresource.net/

Hi,

I have a windows 2000 server (was SP2, now SP4). it has ISA 2000 (SP2)
installed.
It has redirected folders set up, shared internet and a shared printer.
Right now, the clients can log on and use the internet, but the printer and
documents are not available. On the server, the shares for the redirected
folders vanish !! There are three shares, and by the time I have added the
third share, the first one has gone!! No "little hand" icon, nothing to see
from the clients, just as if it's been turned off again. I'm thinking this
is a symptom rather than an actual fault, since the event log shows things
like "no domain controller, no DNS server etc (it's all of those things!).
And it crashed completely over the new year break, no display output, not
response to anything other than the reset button. After the restart, the
event log has no events after the about 4pm on the 1st.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might look for the cause?


RSW
 
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