Win2003 Domain Server and Win98 clients

[comfortably Numb]

Hello,
On a small office network, I have a windows2003 small business server
and 4 windows 98 clients. I set up the 2003 server to be a domain server. I
would like to get the windows 98 users to be able to log on to the domain.
However, at the log on screen the 98 machines are unable to connect to the
server. They get an error messga that says that there is no domain server
available. The same server is set up as a DHCP server and works well.
After the login screen error, I am able to map a drive that is shared on the
server, using user names and password. Seems like the domain server is not
making itself available on the net?

Does anyone have any idea what am I missing?

Thank you for your time and help.

CN

 

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| Hello,
| On a small office network, I have a windows2003 small business server
| and 4 windows 98 clients. I set up the 2003 server to be a domain server. I
| would like to get the windows 98 users to be able to log on to the domain.
| However, at the log on screen the 98 machines are unable to connect to the
| server. They get an error messga that says that there is no domain server
| available. The same server is set up as a DHCP server and works well.
| After the login screen error, I am able to map a drive that is shared on the
| server, using user names and password. Seems like the domain server is not
| making itself available on the net?
|
| Does anyone have any idea what am I missing?
|
| Thank you for your time and help.
|
| CN

 

[Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]]

Got WINS installed on the server? Got options 044 and 046 (0x8) in
DHCP-server, Scope options? Make sure that the winipcfg from the W98's shows
that everything is pointing to the server-IP.
How many nics in the server?

 

[Spinner]

There is an Active Directory client for windows 98, have you tried
installing it?
Also, are there accounts for the 98 machines in the AD? and are they set for
pre win 2000 machines?

 

[CZ]

On a small office network, I have a windows2003 small business server
and 4 windows 98 clients. I set up the 2003 server to be a domain server. I
would like to get the windows 98 users to be able to log on to the domain.
However, at the log on screen the 98 machines are unable to connect to the
server. They get an error messga that says that there is no domain server
available. The same server is set up as a DHCP server and works well.
After the login screen error, I am able to map a drive that is shared on the
server, using user names and password. Seems like the domain server is not
making itself available on the net?

CN:

I use Win98 SE wss with SBS2k3, and they logon to the domain w/o problems.

Did you setup Win9x wss to logon to the domain?

Are your wss only pointing to the SBS2k3 server as the DNS server? Do not
have your wss use an ISP server for DNS.
Setup SBS2k3 to do DNS forwarding to your ISP's DNS server.

Since you are able to access domain shares, you are being authenticated by
the DC.

 

[NobodyMan]

Hello,
On a small office network, I have a windows2003 small business server
and 4 windows 98 clients. I set up the 2003 server to be a domain server. I
would like to get the windows 98 users to be able to log on to the domain.
However, at the log on screen the 98 machines are unable to connect to the
server. They get an error messga that says that there is no domain server
available. The same server is set up as a DHCP server and works well.
After the login screen error, I am able to map a drive that is shared on the
server, using user names and password. Seems like the domain server is not
making itself available on the net?

Does anyone have any idea what am I missing?

Thank you for your time and help.

CN

There are lots of people on the SERVER newsgroups who can help you.
What you are missing is the post to the appropriate group. This one
is for the XP OS, NOT 2003 Server. Bye bye now!

 

[Leon McNichol]

I'm currently testing an AD implementation prior to roll out. We have every
flavor from 95 through XP Pro as clients. I got the 9x/Me AD Client
Extentions off of the Windows 2000 Server CD, installed them on a 95 system,
then went into properties of Network Neighborhood and changed the DNS to
point to the AD test server/PDC, changed the workgroup name to the AD test
domain, and changed the client for MS networks to point to the AD test
domain. Once I did all that and rebooted, it was able to log me on without a
problem.

Make sure that when you put the AD domain in the various places, including
the log on screen, you don't put ".com" (or whatever TLD you chose) in
there. My test domain is adtestinc.com. The .com caused problems. Changing
the entries on the client to just adtestinc resovled them.