Help with Win@K routing

[craig3201]

Hello All

I have a small departmental LAN of 10 workstations running Win-NT
(soon to be upgraded to Win2K). The workstations are connected to a
DNS server (running Win2K server). The server is equipped with two
LAN cards, one connected to the 10 workstation network, the other to a
much larger university network. I am trying to enable the machines on
my network to see the university network. The server can see both
networks; "routing and remote access" is enabled but my 10
workstations cannot see beyond the server, and workstations on the
university network cannot see my 10 workstations. I have added RIP,
and the routing table contains entries "learned" from a router on the
university network - according to the documentation, this indicates
that the server is properly configured (?)

A diagram:


10 workstations (WinNT;10.10.1.2-11;255.0.0.0)
|
|
DNS Server and domain controller (10.10.1.1;255.0.0.0 and
143.128.x.x;255.255.252.0)
|
|
University network (143.128.x.x)


Unfortunately, the person who originally set up the LAN is no longer
interested in helping-out, and the task got dropped on my desk. I
have no experience of Windows networking - please forgive my apparent
ignorance.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Craig.

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Not sure what you mean by cannot 'see' - perhaps routing is OK but you have
a browsing issue.

For routing:

1. All workstations on your LAN need a default gateway of 10.10.1.1; or if
they must use some other default gateway, then that gateway or each
individual machine must be configured with a static route:

route add 143.128.0.0 mask 255.255.252.0 10.10.1.1

2. Machines on the University network must have a route to your LAN -
either their default gateway device or individual computers must have a
static route:

route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 <exact 143.12.x.x IP addressof of your
Server adapter>

For this reason, you need to assign a fixed IP to the 143.12.x.x adapter on
the server.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP