XP DNS Sharing Vs. Internet Big Problem

[Brett]

Here it is,

I am having a problem with XP PRO in connection with
windows 2000 server.

When I setup my XP client IP settings I put IP address,
subnet, Default Gateway(to Internet Router) and Pri DNS
(internet router)

In this configurations I get internet access but NO
server access and no network printing.

Even if I put the win2k IP as sec DNS I get internet
access only. I cant even logon at bootup I even tried
making an lmhosts file. I also tried adding DNS to my
server but nothing. I also added other protocols to all
computers and the server thinking that file and print
would use the other paths.

NOW

I put the win2k server as PRI DNS and NO SEC DNS and I
can access the server and Print but no internet access.

Please advise as I can not be switching DNS all the time
in the settings to do different tasks. The only time I
got both internet access and file access was when I was
using proxyserver 2.0 on another server

Thanks

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

is the server running DNS? if yes, make sure both server and client point to
the internal DNS.

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[David Jones]

Set the XP machine to ONLY use the internal Windows 2000
server for DNS.
On the Windows 2000 server, open the DNS administrative
tool, and bring up the properties for the DNS server.
You should get a "forwarders" tab. Click it, and enter
your router's IP as the DNS forwarder.

If you don't get that tab, check the DNS server help file
for information on how to set up forwarders.

This will forward all requests that the internal DNS
server can't handle out to the Internet, and you'll get
both internal and external access.

 

[Ovidiu Popa]

You need to configure the W2K DNS as a forwarder (that is, to resolve the
requests for your LAN and to forward unknown requests over the Internet,
usually to your ISP DNS). The common mistake is to set the W2K DNS as root
(then configuring as a forwarder is not possible). If so, you need to delete
the DNS zones and create new ones. For details, you may check the W2K help
and the dns newsgroups on the same news server.

Ovidiu Popa
MS-MVP