Slow Login & Outlook

L

Lee

Hello All,

I have the following network setup,

Win2000 SBS, with Exchange installed
Windows XP Pro Clients
Office XP (Outlook 2002)

Router is an SMC7004ABR on 192.168.1.1 to Cable modem
The server is a compaq ML310
Single NIC on 192.168.1.2
Server has DNS, DHCP (router has DHCP disabled)
TCP/IP Settings have prefered DNS server as 192.168.1.2 (itself) and
192.168.1.1
Protocals installed are TCP/IP, Client for MS Network, File & Print Sharing,
QoS Packet Scheduler.
No WINS installed or configured

All clients are DHCP assigned 192.168.1.x and domain members

Problem is login to the network is very slow 3 to 5 minutes at each
workstation and then opening outlook can take another 3 to 5 minutes.

Any ideas on where to look? Any other information needed about the network?

Thanks all

Lee
 
M

Marina Roos

Hi Lee,

You're much better of if you connect your router to a second nic. Have a
look at www.smallbizserver.net for the networksetups.
DNS on server-nic(s) should *only* point to the server-IP. ISP-DNS-numbers
should be set in tab Forwarders of DNS-server.
Got options 003, 006 and 015 set in DHCP-server, scope options?
Have you run the ICW-wizard from the SBS-console?

Marina
 
L

Lee

Thanks for the reply,

003 - 192.168.1.1 (The actual router)
006 - 192.168.1.2 & 192.168.1.1
015 - FQDN is set

I did have the DNS servers backwards in the 006 option with the routers DNS
listed first, which is now corrected. ICS is not installed at all in this
setup, since everything is routed directly to the router for internet access
I figured it would not be an issue.

Lee
 
M

Marina Roos

Hi Lee,

006 should only be your server-IP. Do you have 2 nics? No, you don't. If you
would have 2 nics, 003 should point to your server-IP as well.

So with one nic, IP is 192.168.1.2, gateway is 192.168.1.1, DNS is
192.168.1.2.
With 2 nics the internal nic would be 192.168.1.2, blank gateway, DNS
192.168.1.2
External nic on a different IP-range, eg. IP 10.0.0.2, gateway 10.0.0.1, DNS
192.168.1.2

Marina
 

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