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Steve, you are absolutely correct and your timing is impeccable. Disabling
DHCP on the router is EXACTLY what I just finished doing. I then set the DC
up as a DHCP server. All is good now.
Thanks to all for your assistance!!!!!
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
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> The correct way to do it is to configure your domain controller to be the
> DHCP server by configuring and activating the scope with the options
> configured for the scope that the wizard would prompt you for and then
> disabling DHCP on the router and is exactly what I do on my home Active
> Directory domain network. Possibly you can configure your router via it's
> web interface as in
http://192.168.0.1 to dish out the IP address of the
> domain controller as the dns server but that is less than ideal in a
domain
> as it will not have all the options that the DHCP scope would have on the
> domain controller. --- Steve
>
>
> "Fred Hammond" <freddhammond@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:eNlSS6fyEHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > Color me frustrated...both of my desktops are set to use DHCP. I
manually
> > changed my XP Pro box to use the IP of my Win2k3 server (192.168.0.100)
> > for
> > its DNS. Voila!! All worked fine.
> >
> > Now, all of my machines are connected to a Netgear MR814v2 Wireless
Router
> > (192.168.0.1) that is acting as a DHCP server. How can I get that
router
> > (in its role as a DHCP server) to give out the IP of my Win2k3 server
> > (192.168.0.100) as the DNS server for my clients? Becuz as of now, the
> > wireless router is giving out the IP Address of itself (192.168.0.1).
It
> > would be ideal to have each client be totally set to use DHCP instead of
> > having to obtain its IP automatically and have to put in the DNS server
> > manually.
> >
> >
> > "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:eGsUskfyEHA.824@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >> See the link below on how to configure dns for an Active Directory
> >> Domain.
> >> It MUST be done correctly or problems like what you experience can
> >> happen.
> >> In particular your domain controller must point ONLY to itself as it's
> >> preferred dns server as shown by Ipconfig /all and the domain
computers
> >> must point ONLY to the domain controller and never an ISP dns server.
> >> Also
> >> software firewalls or other "protection" software can cause problems on
a
> >> domain and often booting into safe mode with networking can isolate
such
> >> problems. I would also check Event Viewer on the XP Pro computer for
any
> >> pertinent errors and run the netdiag support tool on it looking for
> > problems
> >> with network connectivity and problems with dns, dclist, and secure
> > channel.
> >> The support tools are on the install disk of the operating system in
the
> >> support/tools folder. You should also run netdiag and dcdiag on your
> > domain
> >> controller. --- Steve
> >>
> >>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B291382
> >>
> >> "Fred Hammond" <freddhammond@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:OB9$mGdyEHA.3976@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >> >I have a home network setup with 1 Win2k3 server, 1 Win2k Professional
> >> > desktop, and 1 WinXP Professional desktop. The domain is called
"test"
> > and
> >> > both desktops are logged into the domain.
> >> >
> >> > When I share a folder on the win2k desktop, I am able to select a
> >> > domain
> >> > user "joe" to have permission to that folder and I am able to get to
> > that
> >> > folder from the other desktop and the server.
> >> >
> >> > However, when I go to share a folder which resides on the XP desktop,
I
> > do
> >> > not have the option to add any domain users. I am only allowed to
add
> >> > local
> >> > users.
> >> >
> >> > Why could this be?
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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