Joining a Windows 2003 domain

[Guest]

We are in the process of moving our office network form a Windows NT 4
platform to Windows 2003. I already installed a windows 2003 serve- this is
the only domain controller, in the lab, and joined 4 windows XP workstations
to this domain. So far everything works fine; there was no problem for
installing the server, or joining the workstation to the domain. we have 10
users on the server, and all the users can login to the domain, and we
managed to map 4 drives to the server, that’s all works, the problem is once
users login to the server, the users are able to see their mapped drives, and
subfolders and everything, but by the end of the day, non of the mapped
drivers are not accessible, if you click on the drive letter it sits there
with the hour glass, for a while, and come back saying access denied. Then
you reboot the workstation and logging again all the drivers are accessible.
What is wrong here? What settings are we missing? We really appreciate some
help on this issue.

 

[Danny Sanders]

I've seen this happen when the wrong DNS server is set on the client for
"alternate"

What DNS server do the clients point to for alternate DNS?


DDS

 

[Guest]

What we did was, there was no dns server for the lab alone, so we set the
server itslf as the DNS server.
--
Raghu Ollakal
System Administrator

I've seen this happen when the wrong DNS server is set on the client for
"alternate"

What DNS server do the clients point to for alternate DNS?


DDS

 

[Danny Sanders]

What we did was, there was no dns server for the lab alone, so we set the

server itslf as the DNS server.

This server is set as Preferred and alternate on the clients?


DDS

What we did was, there was no dns server for the lab alone, so we set the
server itslf as the DNS server.

 

[Guest]

Yes the server is set as preferred and alternate on the clients.