Losing network drive mappings overnight

[Terry Vella]

I'm going mad here. I am trying to run our first XP Pro
install on a W2k server domain. I can join the domain, map
network drives etc, but when I come back to it later on or
the next morning, I cannot login to the domain as it
is "not available". Internet connectivity is fine and I
can ping all the places I need.

Really would appreciate some guidance here. Our network
guys are scratching their heads and banging on about
staying with W2k instead. Could this be caused by some
kind of licensing issue? I know we have run out of Windows
Server licenses and are buying some more.

Thanks a million
Terry

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

it could be DNS issue.

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[Terry Vella]

Thanks Robert, you were spot on. For some reason the
workstation was setting its primary DNS to our ISP's. I've
manually specified the local dns server in network
properties on the workstation and problem solved!

Thanks again

Terry

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

Thank you for the update.

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