Jan
Mon Sep 29 16:11:09 CDT 2003
Man, talk about trace along the dotted lines...! No ideas what some of that
stuff was doing! But it worked a treat. My thanks Jim, you saved me a heap
of headache.
Jan (Andrew Prior)
<jimbehning@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Does your server have SP4 installed? If so that is good. Even SP3 is
> ok for this article. Go to support.microsoft.com and find article
> 292822. The article mentions getting a patch from Microsoft. That
> patch is included in SP3 and SP4. Do the edits as they are requred if
> you dial into your server remotely via vpn or RAS. Your network card
> (cards) should have their dns set to the ip of of your main nic. On a
> standard SBS install the default server ip is 192.168.16.2. Read the
> article carefully because it explains some WINS issues. Also note that
> at your server you need to go into the DHCP manager and set option 46
> to 0x8. If you see an article that says 0x1 is the proper setting then
> the article is wrong.
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;sbstopdns
>
> Make sure that the workstations do not have any entries in their host
> files that can cause you problems. Do a search for hosts and read the
> files. The hosts file does not have an extension. Also make sure that
> the workstations do not have manual entries for dns or wins that
> poiint to any ips except the ip of your server's main nic.
>
>
> "Jan" <jan@onemansweb.org> wrote:
>
> >I have an SBS2000 installation at home on which I have just run the
Remote
> >Access wizard. It happily lets me login via a workstation at work. But
> >about a day after setup we are finding here at home that workstations
> >intermittently cannot surf the web. The ISA client refuses to refresh
at
> >this time (either the server is down or it is not an ISA server is the
> >message, although it immediately refreshes if I put in the IP no of the
> >server... but still no browsing.) The problem seems to go away after a
few
> >minutes. Also we are finding that some people are having trouble logging
on
> >here.... again an intermittent problem.
> >
> >We have a fixed IP with a 56k modem here at home.
> >
> >All the packet filters are enabled. I have found one warning in the
> >application log that isa server was dropping packets, but it does not
> >correspond to the times of difficulty.
> >
> >Is there a common problem here that anyone is aware of? I'd be glad to
hear
> >from you
> >
>
> Jim B. SBS MVP