Hi Prior to installing AD - need to run some perquisites checks: I am referring to: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/b96e3f0a-bf98-4a80-8718-dd80dc1071fd1033.mspx?mfr=true in point 8) Verify the availability of the operations masters In it, Microsoft recommend running: ...
Our company would like to host our website inhouse as opposed to paying a company for hosting. When attempting to change the domain's nameservers at the registrar it says that the nameservers do not exist. Am I running the "wrong" kind of nameservers to accomplish this task?
Our company is directly connect to a partner but have seperate LANs, DNS, etc. and are seperated by a firewall. Our company NATs our addresses to them and they NAT their addresses to us. Both companies access each others resources (intranet mainly). They use one.com for resolution of our...
I have a simple wireless network with a desktop and laptop. Everything was working just hunky dory. I had Hamachi set up on the laptop, then recently uninstalled it. After the uninstallation, I can no longer access the internet or my network from the laptop. If I do an ipconfig, the DNS suffix...
An MX record is looked-up if an email is being sent to (someone@mydomain.com) but if it directly sent to the mail server (someone@mail.mydomain.com) in this case only the A record it looked-up. Is this true? In the latter case, emails are being sent directly to the mail server&any spam filtering...
does there exists a hosts.txt file for TLD or Root name servers in our system using Windows or Linux...
I am having an issue with setting up a proxy on our semi-mobile users. When they are working on their laptop in the office they are required to go through our proxy server to access the internet. When they go home the proxy must be disabled to access the internet from there. Is there any way of...
I have a server 2003 with 2 nics internal 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0 no gateway 192.168.10.5 DNS external 10.1.10.5 255.255.255.0 10.1.10.1 gateway 68.87.76.178 dns Internal nic handles the DHCP 192.168.10.150-190 it has the scope options with the gateway 10.1.10.1 that is the comcast modem....
Hi there, I run a dedicated Win2k3 Active Directory server, which is running just fine. I run a backup Win2k3 AD server as well. When I turn off my primary, the backup should sub in, and direct individuals to my Exchange server, etc. But it's not. I know it's handling DNS queries fine, even...
Good Day! Currently, this is a simple LAN network with firewall diagram in my company. Please kindly refer to http://hgym.photosite.com/firewall/LANfirewall.html for the mentioned diagram. I wish to set an IP on the network interface of the FTP/Web/Mail Server. Any suggestion? ...
Hello, We have several Dell Optiplex GX520's on the network running Windows XP pro. They randomly fall into sleep mode. Moving the mouse will not wake them - you have to push the power button to get them out of sleep mode. Also we are not able to remotely wake them to do patch updates or remotely...
For the life of me can't seem to setup my server. I have 2 Nics for extra security and what is recommended for Remote Access. This worked with SBS but I just installed windows 2003 server and want to setup remote access server and exchange 2007 I have the external card: 192.168.1.5 IP...
We have 2 servers on our network. The one is a Windows 2003 Server, which is the primary domain controller. The other is a Windows 2000 Server, which is the ?other,? or secondary, domain controller. The Windows 2003 server pretty much handles everything for the most part, like DNS, DHCP, etc. ...
I am having a weird problem. Online tests show that my mail server is missing its MX record. I do know it's there. According to mxtoolbox.com and dnsstuff.com, my authoritive server does not have the record. I am getting delay messages from some domains like swbell and alltel.
I posed a question a couple of weeks ago and had no response so I'm hoping I just worded it badly. I'm desperate to sort this out so I'm having another try. The first error I got in my DNS log was Event ID 4515 "The zone contoso.com was previously loaded from the directory partition...
I was wondering what is the best method for allowing internal computers to access our locally-hosted web server with www.somedomain.com? I believe the internal clients are unable to do so because of how firwalls/NAT works(?). Is there a way I can add an entry in my DNS server? I am using Windows...
I have a network of about 25 computers using a Windows Server 2003 as a domain controller. I have a VPN for users to work from home. When a remote user logs in through the VPN, the only computer visible in the domain is that remote computer. I can reach any network computer by doing the...
The server running on windows 2003 (not primry domain) is used as DHCP server to issue client IP. I configured a 2wire router on this. but the conectivity to server keeps droping now and then. Could anyone here please let me know the possible cause? Best regards,


