Two locations

[Guest]

I have two different offices set up on my network. Each office is about 200
miles apart.

Anyway, HeadQuarters has 90 users, and the remote location has about 7 users.

We have about 8 servers in our network.

The remote location can connect only to our one win 2000 server and one NT
4.0 server. They cannot connect to any other servers on our network. Our
other servers include some xp machines, win 2000 server machines,. Every user
is running XP PRO.

The remote location connects through a hardware VPN.

Why cant our remote location access the other servers? They can only access
two of our servers?

Could it be a routing issue? I can't even ping their machines out there.

Any suggestions?

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

If the inaccessible servers are on the same subnet as the accessible
servers, the issue would most likely be the gateway or static routes
configured on the inaccessible machines. Try comparing routing tables with
the accessible servers.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Doug,

Thank you for your reply. However, i am a bit new to networking with only a
small amount of training. How do i compare routing tables?
Is there a command line switch that i need to view these tables?

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Yes: route print

See this for a basic explanation of routing tables:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140859

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Thanks again Doug.

With the server in question, it seems that every third day, the remote
location will lose connectivity to this server.

Is it possible that a route table or something could become corrupted over
time?

The way I fix this issue now is that i have the server auto-rebooting every
night after hours. I would like to discontinue this, but I need to have them
able to connect.

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Most likely this is a different issue - check Event Viewer on the server for
errors at or around the time that connections fail.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Well, i do notice, on that server, that my NIC speeds will fluctuate
throughout the day. In the morning, it runs at 100mbps, around the afternoon
it drops down to 10mbps. I have checked the cables, switch, connections many
times.
After hours, im going to set the NIC setting to manually stay at 100mbps.
This could possibly have something to do with the loss of connection.

The only thing differnt is that i see in the event viewer is new group
policy installing itself around the time that they lose connectivity. i dont
know why this would change anything though.


But, you dont think there is a possiblitity that something is tampering with
the route tables after a certain period of time?